Abstract
The Madurese people are originally indigenous to the island of Madura, located in the Java Sea just north of East Java, and Madura is part of the province of Jawa Timur (East Java) which contains four cities in it; Bangkalan, Sampang, Pamekasan and Sumenep. Madurese language plays important roles in maintaining and developing Indonesian language. There are at least two major roles of Madurese language. The roles are; (1) the existence of Madurese language can be used as a shield of Indonesian language against the invasion of foreign languages, and (2) Madurese language can be functioned as a vocabulary donor of Indonesian language. Madurese language is interested to be analyzed because of its unique language features. Madurese has their own rules to arrange a proper conversation politely, just like Javanese and the other culture. They have their speechlevels engaged to social dialect that used in daily communication. It is because of some factors. This social dialect and its factors of Madurese language is discussed in this research.
Highlights
As a human being, communication is the most effective interaction in our daily activity
Every vernacular language has its own rule to arrange a proper conversation politely. We can analyze this case using sociolinguistics which is the study of language in relation to society
The roles are; (1) the existence of Madurese language can be used as a shield of Indonesian language against the invasion of foreign languages, and (2) Madurese language can be functioned as a vocabulary donor of Indonesian language. (Azhar, 2008: 16-19)
Summary
Communication is the most effective interaction in our daily activity. Every vernacular language has its own rule to arrange a proper conversation politely We can analyze this case using sociolinguistics which is the study of language in relation to society. Madurese has their own rules to arrange a proper conversation politely, just like Javanese and the other culture They have their speech levels engaged to social dialect that used in daily communication. Sampang regency has less polite language compared to the other regencies They use Enja’/Iya for their daily communication including talking to their parents. Enggi/Bunten [æŋghibhuntên] used by young people to the elder ones, students to their teacher, and a nephew to his uncle This is a kind of high level of speech in Madurese language and considered as the more polite one
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