Basanan for Love of Osing Language in Banyuwangi:A Study of Pragmatics
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https://doi.org/10.071025/jz00j248Keywords:
basanan for love, osing language, pragmatics, speech acts, implicatureAbstract
Osing language is a local language uttered by the people of Banyuwangi, East Java, especially those who live in the villages. In daily interaction, they often perform a basanan expression as an indirect utterance. Basanan is an indirectly specific utterance expressed for things related to any jobs, social activities, religious matters, education, love, etc. In real life activities, basanan for love is much more realized especially by the youngsters. The study is focused on analyzing basanan for love of Osing language realized by the local speakers of Banyuwangi on the pragmatic perspective. It is aimed at analyzing the speech acts implied in the basanan for love and the reasons of basanan use for love. It is a qualitative research with the ethnographic approach. The data are dialogues containing of utterances of basanan for love, collected by using interview and documentation with the techniques of recording, listening, and note-taking. The procedure of data analysis includes some phases, such as compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. The technique of analysis is pragmatic analysis covering two sub techniques: means-end and heuristic analysis. The results reveal that speech acts implied in basanan for love is expressive performed in two folds of situation, such as 1) basanan for love as the love is accepted and 2) basanan for love as the love is not accepted. It is also found that basanan for love is used for some reasons, such as it is embarrassing and said to be taboo if direct expressions are performed for love, basanan is conventionally beautiful and joyful word for love, people who are good at basanan is said to be polite and brilliant, basanan has been taught by the seniors and/or the surrounding peoples, and the use of basanan for love has been maintained in the local ‘geredoan’ tradition (teasing young ladies cooking at the kitchen in the night time when ‘muludan’ ceremony are organized in a village).
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