Abstract
Javanese tribe has special acts in doing their sacred ceremony or ritual. One of their sacred ceremony is called midodareni belongs to the event of tantingan and tebus kembar mayang. The purpose of this study is to analyse the varied language used and its meaning related to the way of Javanese people through those two events. Therefore, this study is examined by using the theory of etnography communication. This study uses secondary data collected from Youtube. The result of the study shows that there are language variations in communicating to the interlocutor who has different role since Javanese people adhere to the communication pattern of unda usuk. The meaning of sub-event of tantingan is appropriate with Javanese culture of doing every single thing carefully so there is a speech act aimed at reconfirming. Then, in the sub-event of tantingan also describes the characteristic of Javanese tribe who love their daughters. The meaning of that sub-event of tebus kembar mayang is correlated to Javanese culture of hoping an everlasting marriage which is symbolized with kembar mayang, and every form kembar mayang not be separated from the nature, so it shows that Javanese people have a synergy with nature.
Highlights
As one of tribes in Indonesia, Javanese tribe has such a rich traditional ceremonies, one of them is wedding ceremony
Based on the result of data analysis, it can be inferred that the speech act done by the future bride and her father, and a man who looks for kembar mayang is varied
The language variety is due to Javanese people adheres to unda usuk communication pattern or levelling in speech act because of different role they have
Summary
As one of tribes in Indonesia, Javanese tribe has such a rich traditional ceremonies, one of them is wedding ceremony It consists of several sequences of events, yet this study only focuses on the ceremony of midodareni. Midodareni is an event carried out by Javanese people in a night right before their wedding. Clifford Geertz; cited from Susanti [1] described that Javanese people believe that midodareni ceremony is for getting salvation. In other hand, there is who says that the word midodareni is from the word widada areni, or widada ari or ari kang widada which means “a fine day” (Mulyono, [2])
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