The Use of Interrogative Sentences in Madurese Language in Bârighâân Village, Panarukan Sub-District, Situbondo Regency

SUMMARY

 

The Use of Interrogative Sentences in Madurese Language in Bârighâân Village, Panarukan Sub-District, Situbondo Regency; Heri Budiyono, 120110201063; 2016; 112 pages; Indonesian Literature Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Jember.

  

Interrogative sentence is a sentence which is delivered to get an answer in the form of information, explanation, or statement. Interrogative sentence is functioned to ask for an answer in the form of explanation, to dig up information, to clarify, or to confirm. Interrogative sentence which is also used for certain purposes is called disguised interrogative sentence. The problems in this study included (1) what are the forms of interrogative sentence markers in the enjâ’-iyâ speech level in Madurese language in Bârighâân village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency? and (2) how are the functions and the purposes of the use of interrogative sentences in Madurese language in Bârighâân village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency? The purposes of this study were to describe the forms of markers and the functions and the purposes of the use of interrogative language in Madurese language in Bârighâân village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency.

The data in this study are in the forms of verbal data which are consisted of three types, namely (1) data of speech uttered by Madurese community in Bârighâân Village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency, (2) context data as a depiction of situation when the speech takes place, (3) informant data which are obtained through observation. The method of the data provision used in this study was an observation method with a participatory observation technique and non-participatory observation technique. The advanced technique used is a recording technique. Furthermore, the method of data analysis used was a pragmatic identity method. The pragmatic identity method was used to analyze the meaning of a speech. The method of data analysis result presentation used informal presentation, which presented the result of the analysis with ordinary words description.

Based on the data analysis, there are four types of the marker forms in the kinds of interrogative sentences in Madurese language of the enjâ’-iyâ speech level in Bârighâân Village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency. The first is an ordinary interrogative sentence which uses question words apa ‘what’, sapa ‘who’, è dimma ‘where’, dâri dimma ‘where … from’, dâ’emma ‘where … go’, sè kemma ‘which one’, bilâ ‘when’, bârâmpa ‘how many/much’, arapa ‘why’, bârâmma ‘how’. The second is a rhetorical interrogative sentence or an interrogative sentence which does not expect an answer. The third is a confirmation interrogative sentence which uses the word apa ‘what’ and a clarification interrogative sentence which uses the word enjâ’ ‘no’ or bânni ‘not’. The fourth is a disguised interrogative sentence which aims to beg, to ask, to instruct, to invite, to persuade, to insinuate, to invite, to convince, and to offer something.

Interrogative sentences in the Madurese language can be used to express a variety of speech act in which there were some goals to be achieved by the speakers to the opponents. Based to the analysis of the data, there are four types of speech act which can be expressed with interrogative sentences in Madurese language found in Bârighâân Village, Panarukan Sub-district, Situbondo Regency. The first is a representative speech act which aims to greet, to express sympathy, to suspect and representative speech act to praise. The second is a directive speech act which aims to invite, to instruct, to remind, to advise, to request and to prohibit. The third is a commissive speech act or speech act which makes the speaker acts in the future, such as a commissive speech act to invite and commissive speech actto promise something. The fourth is an expressive speech act or a speech which expresses the speaker’s attitude about something, such as a speech act expressing astonishment, expressing worry, expressing annoyance, surprise, and expressive speech act to be grateful.

 

Leave a Reply