A STUDY OF DIALECT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JAVANESE SURABAYA AND MADIUN USED IN TRADITIONAL MARKET IN EAST JAVA

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A STUDY OF DIALECT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JAVANESE SURABAYA

AND MADIUN USED IN TRADITIONAL MARKET IN EAST JAVA

THESIS

By:

EMA DEVIANA

08360146

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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A STUDY OF DIALECT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JAVANESE SURABAYA

AND MADIUN USED IN TRADITIONAL MARKET IN EAST JAVA

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana

Degree in English Education

By:

EMA DEVIANA

08360146

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

“... Allah akan meninggikan orang yang beriman di antaramu dan

orang-orang yang diberi ilmu pengetahuan beberapa derajat...”

(surat Al- Mujadalah : 11)

“Berilmu, Beriman dan Beramal”

(Anonymous)

DEDICATION:

My beloved father and mother,

my brother and my sweetheart,

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Alhamdulillah... all praises belong to Allah SWT who has been giving the

spirit and great inspiration to the researcher that made her able to finish this thesis.

Peace and blessing always be upon our prophet Muhammad SAW who has guided

us to the right life.

The researcher would like to express her deepest gratitude to the first

advisor Fardini Sabilah, M. Pd. and Drs. Sudiran, M. Hum. as the second advisor

because they have guided the researcher patiently and have given the great advice

during the process of her thesis consultation.

The researcher also would like to give the greatest gratitude to her beloved

Father (Kajad), her lovely mother (Bawon Priana), and her cute brother (Deni Dwi

Candra) who give great spirit in every situation. Many thanks belong to her best

friends who always help her that can not be mentioned one by one.

Malang, 13 June 2012

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A STUDY OF DIALECT DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN JAVANESE SURABAYA AND MADIUN USED IN TRADITIONAL MARKET IN

EAST JAVA

ABSTRACT

Javanese language is the language used by some parts of regional in Java, especially East Java. Two of them are Surabaya and Madiun. The societies use Javanese language to communicate with others in their daily activity. However, they differ in terms of their vocabulary and pronunciation. It is known as Surabaya and Madiun’s dialect.

Those differentiations make the researcher interested to take it as her theme of research. This study is focusing on the differentiation of vocabulary and

pronunciation between Surabaya and Madiun.

The instruments used in this study were observation and documentation. The researcher did observation to know the condition of the subject in their daily activity. Besides, the researcher also used documentation as the instrument because the researcher collected the data by using the script of the record taken from recording. Then, the researcher analysed the data and classified the data based on the reseacrh problems.

The results of this study showed that there were fifteen vocabularies which were indicated the differentiation between Surabaya and Madiun societies. The vocabularies included into some parts of speech. They were verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and noun. Besides, there were thirteen pronunciations which were indicated the differentiation between Surabaya and Madiun societies. The differentiation of pronunciation was in some letters, most of them were vowel.

Key Words: (Dialect, Traditional Market)

The Advisor I, The Researcher,

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Chapter I of this research presents such topics as: background of study,

statement of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation,

and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows.

1.1

Background of the Study

People cannot live by themselves or without any help from others because

they live interdependently. They need to interact and communicate with others, so

they need language to express their thought. “Language is a system of communication

by written or spoken words which is used by the people of a particular country or

area” (Longman, 2008: 895). It is a way to express their feelings, toughs, and ideas to

others. Language is very important to human life, that is why in this world there are

many languages which are used by every society in their regions and it cannot be

separated each other especially in Indonesia.

According to Marjohan (1988: 1), “sociolinguistics is a branch of linguistics

which studies language variation and its relation to social variation.” It studies about

varieties of language like jargon, slang, colloquial, style, and dialect. One of the

interesting topics in this study is about dialect.

Indonesia has so many tribes, automatically it has many languages and

dialects. Every dialect has different characteristic from others. Dialect is a variety of

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researcher interested to take the dialect to be a research’s theme because she can learn

more about the variation of dialect in our country.

There are three kinds of dialect, they are regional dialect, social dialect, and

geographical dialect. “Regional dialect is a dialect spoken in a specific geographic

area that may arise from, and is reinforced by, that areas integrity” (Fromkin, 2003:

593). For example the dialect spoken in Surabaya and Madiun are different even

though both have the same language that is Javanese.

Our country has many kinds of dialects, especially in Java which has three

parts of region, namely West Java, Central Java, and East Java that usually make the

society of Java difficult to understand the language itself. We also cannot use our

dialect in other dialects because it has differentiation in grammar, vocabulary, and

pronunciation. So, the researcher wants to do the research about the differentiation of

dialect between two cities in East Java, they are Surabaya and Madiun.

The researcher decides to do this research because basically the language of

Surabaya and Madiun are similar, that is Javanese language. Because they are

separated regionally, so automatically their dialects are different. Surabaya is located

in the central of East Java as the capital of East Java. It is well known as a city that

has more rude dialect compared with others. On the contrary, Madiun is frontier town

between East Java and Central Java. Madiun has smooth dialect because it is closer

with Central Java dialect than East Java dialect. So, the researcher believes that this

research is important because she can compare two dialects, which are in reality they

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Based on the important of this research, the researcher must know about the

previous researches that studied about dialect. They were: Nurul Qadryanti (2007),

Elpa Nauli Raila (2008) and Alfian Dedi Rahman (2011).

The previous research was written by Qadryanti (2007) with the title “A Study

on Dialect Varieties Used by Sumenep People in Maduranese Regional Language”.

The result of her research stated that the dialect which was used between Kangean

and Kalianget people was different. Kalianget patois is easier to be understood than

the Kangean patois. Besides that, the dialect could be divided into four types, those

were: the words that were changed in letter/syllable, the words that were changed in

letter, the words that were nearly changed in letter/syllable, the words that were

different in syllable. The causes in differences were geographical position, the

coming of foreigners with different languages to Madura, and the development of

Modern technology.

The second research was written by Raila (2008) with the title “Dialect

Differences between Banjarmasin and Amuntai of Banjarese. The result of her

research stated that there were differences of sounds pattern such as sounds [e], for

example in words; semalam, in Banjarmasin it is pronounced //s[é]malam// but in

Amuntai //s[a]malam//. It also has differentiation in vocabulary, for example; the

word kamu, Banjarmasin people say nyawa, but Amuntai people say kau’ui. The

differences of sound pattern and vocabulary between Banjarmasin and Amuntai

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The last research was conducted by Rahman (2011) with the title “A Study on

Dialect Varieties Used by Tenggeresin Javanesin Regional Language. The result of

his research stated that Tengger Javanese dialect characteristic was dominanced by

speech sound “a” at the end of syllables, not pronounced “o” as in most of Java

language or regional Javanese language. The intonation of their sentences were flat

because of the different characteristic of Javanese accent. There were many other

unique terms of variety of Tengger dialect which is interesting.

Based on the description in the previous research, there is none of the previous

researchers who took the research about the differentiation of Surabaya and Madiun

dialect used by the people in traditional market yet.

1.2

Statement of Study

1. What are the differences of vocabulary used by the people from Javanese

Surabaya and Madiun in traditional market in East Java?

2. What are the differences of pronunciation used by the people from Javanese

Surabaya and Madiun in traditional market in East Java?

1.3

Purpose of Study

1. To describe the differences of vocabulary used by the people from Javanese

Surabaya and Madiun in traditional market in East Java.

2. To describe the differences of pronunciation used by the people from Javanese

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1.4

Significance of Study

Practically, this study gives more knowledge about the differences of

Surabaya and Madiun’s dialect to the people who live in Surabaya and Madiun. So,

they are able to understand both of the dialects. Besides, it gives the real example to

the student of sociolinguistic study about differentiation of dialect in our country,

especially between Javanese Surabaya and Madiun.

Theoretically, this study also gives contribution to the lecturers of

sociolinguistic study to improve their knowledge about dialects. Automatically, the

student are able to differentiate one dialect from others, especially Surabaya and

Madiun’s dialect.

1.5

Scope and Limitation

The scope of this study is the differentiation of dialects between Javanese

Surabaya and Madiun in East Java. The limitation of the study is focused on

vocabulary and pronunciation that are used by the people in Surabaya and Madiun’s

traditional market especially in trade transaction. The trade transaction here is a

transaction that is used by the buyer and seller of goods in every ages in Surabaya and

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1.6

Definition of Key Terms

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Dialect

: “a form of a language that is spoken in one area, with words or

grammar that are slightly different from other areas” (Longman, 2008: 438).

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Regional dialect

: “a dialect spoken in a specific geographic area that may

arise from, and is reinforced by, that areas integrity” (Fromkin, 2003: 593).

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Traditional Market

: gathering of vendors who sell off carts which go

through residential areas (www.expat.or.id/info/traditionalmarkets.html#).

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Vocabulary

: “all the words in a particular language” (Longman, 2008:

1764).

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Pronounciation

: “the way in which language or a particular word is

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