Abstract
Language, culture, and society are three things that cannot be separated. The intertwining among them are reflected in halal bi halal tradition. This annually tradition mainly uses Javanese language as a main central of social communication. Two common codes that used by the participants in conducting the event are krama and ngoko. The participants when choosing the codes, of course, are influenced by the social factors. Dealing with this, the aim of this study is finding the language choices use and the factors that affect the participants selecting the codes. This ethnographic study used participant observation in collecting the data. Then, the collected data were analyzed by theory of social dimension proposed by Holmes. The results of the study showed that (1) the language choices use are (a) Javanese krama, (b) Javanese ngoko, (c) mixture of Javanese and Arabic, (d) mixture of Javanese, and Arabic, and Indonesian, and (e) Indonesian and Indonesian and (2) the factors that affect the language choices are (a) the social relationship of the participants, (b) the setting of the event, (c) the formality of the vent, and (d0 the function for the event. As a conclusion, code choices that happen in halal bi halal tradition are commonly affected by social factor or nonlinguistic factor.
Highlights
Code choices have a closed relation to the linguistic repertoire of the people
To help a clear understanding about language choices, the writer presents a paragraph from chapter two of the book entitled An Introduction to Sociolinguistics written by Holmes as follows: Kalala speaks an informal style of Shi, his tribal language, at home with his family, and he is familiar with the formal Shi used for weddings and funerals
Five kinds of the Code choices occur in halal bi halal tradition are caused by nonlinguistic factors. (Kurniati, 2010) said that social factors or nonlinguistic factors have a great role in determining what suitable code to be used
Summary
Code choices have a closed relation to the linguistic repertoire of the people. They may choose A or B or C code in speech event. To help a clear understanding about language choices, the writer presents a paragraph from chapter two of the book entitled An Introduction to Sociolinguistics written by Holmes as follows: Kalala speaks an informal style of Shi, his tribal language, at home with his family, and he is familiar with the formal Shi used for weddings and funerals. He uses informal Shi in the market-place when he deals with vendors from his own ethnic group. Standard Swahili, one of the national language (Holmes, 2013)
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