REGISTER PADA SPORTFISHING ANNOUNCER TALK DALAM PROGRAM ‘MANCING MANIA’ TRANS7

Abstract

This paper aims to describe register on Sport Announcer Talk (SAT) in sportfishing ‘Mancing Mania Trans7 Program’. Data were compiled from the document containing register on sportfishing either vacabulary or syntactic features which are downloaded from Mancing mania Trans7 Official channel. Afterwards, data were transcribed ortographically and classified into 6 domains namely person, location, activity, technique, equipment, and target fish. Data were analyzed based on the characteristics to determine register by considering vocabulary distinctiveness. Beside that, sintactic aspects were elaborated to show the functional and stylistic features. The result show that the forms of registers in the field of fishing were dominated with heavy noun modification. English was the dominant language used by the announcer to express the identity of the angler community. There were many methaporic register applied for the shake of attractiveness. Finally, the language is quite clearly distinguishable from language used in other contexts especially from other sporting events. The grammar is quite distinctive which involves features such as complexity, syntactic reduction and the inversion, heavy noun modification and other stylistic function such as deictic and exaggerating expressions.