A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF REGISTER
USED IN SOCCER PAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
Written by:
ALIS RAHMAWATI A320090068
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
APPROVAL
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF REGISTER
USED IN SOCCER PAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK
RESEARCH PAPER
by:
Alis Rahmawati
A.320090068
Approved to be examined by the consultant team:
Consultant I
(Drs. Maryadi, M. A.)
195803041989031001
Consultant II
ACCEPTANCE
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF REGISTER
USED IN SOCCER PAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK
Accepted by the Board of Examiners School
of the Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta On Mei 2014
Team of Examiners:
1. Drs. Maryadi, M.A. ( )
Member I
2. Dra. Siti Zuhriyah Ariyatmi, M.Hum ( ) Member II
3. Dra. Malikatul Laila, M.Hum ( )
Member III
Dean
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Glorious, the Lord and the Almighty, the Merciful and the Compassionate, who has given bless and opportunity for the writer to accomplish the research paper entitled “A Sociolinguistics Analysis used in Soccer Page of Social Media
Facebook” as one of the requirements for getting the bachelor degree in English
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Training and Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
2. Mauly Halwat H. S. Pd, M. Hum, Ph. D.,asthe chief of English
Department for encouragement to the writer. 3. GiriLumakto S. Pd., as the academic adviser.
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ABSTRACT
Alis Rahmawati. A 320090068.A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF REGISTER USED BY SOCCER LOVER IN SOCCER PAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK.Research Paper.Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. 2014
This research paper aims to describe the linguistics form and the meaning of register used in soccer page of social media facebook. Soccer page is a space where news about soccer is shared. This page is handled by maintenance who always post updated news about soccer, such as score updates, news of last match, and news of the player or the specific club. There are many new words created in soccer pages.
The type of research is descriptive qualitative. The object of this research is the register used in soccer page of social media facebook. The data are register words and phrases included in printed material used in soccer page of social media facebook. The data source is the post in soccer page of social media facebook. The writer collects the post in soccer page, reads the post thoroughly, and writes down the register words and phrases, and gives the code of the data. In analyzing the data, the writer classifies the data into categories as the register, analyzes the data by identifying the linguistic form of the register, analyzing the context of situation of the data based on Halliday’s theory, Identifying the differences between lexical and contextual meaning based on Larson’s theory.
Based on the analysis, the researcher finds there are 13 data of noun, 1 datum of verb, 1 datum of adjective, 15 data of compound word, 1 datum of abbreviation, and 6 data of noun phraseand there are two types of meaning: 9 data of lexical meaning and 28 data of contextual meaning. This means that the highestfrequency data of linguistic form are in compound word (40.5%) and meaning are in contextual meaning (75.6%).
Keyword: Sociolinguistics, Register, Soccer Page
TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ... vii
ABSTRACT ... x
a. Idiolect ... 10
b. Dialect ... 10
c. Chronolect ... 10
d. Sociolect ... 11
2. Language Variation based on Situation ... 11
C. Data and Data Source ... 25
D. Technique of Collecting Data ... 26
E. Technique of Analyzing Data ... 26
CHAPTER IV : RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION ... 27
A. Research Finding ... 28
1. Linguistic Forms ... 28
2. The Meaning ... 29
B. Discussion ... 57
1. Linguistic Forms ... 57
2. The Meaning ... 61
CHAPTER V :CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 65
A. Conclusion ... 65
B. Suggestion ... 67
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 70
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