ADDRESS TERMS IN MANNA SERAWAI LANGUAGE SOUTH BENGKULU REGENCY OF BENGKULU PROVINCE

Abstract

In Indonesia, there are hundreds of different local languages spreading all over the country and each of them has its own characteristics in every part of the language. For example, it is different from one to another in address term. This study is aimed to find out the address terms of Serawai language in Manna city, and to find out the social factors which can influence the use of address terms of Serawai language in Manna city. This research uses the primary data which are directly taken from the research location and the secondary data as the first step before getting the primary data. The writer uses both participants’ and non-participants’ observation, and note taking technique. The writer also uses unstructured interview and elicitation technique in interviewing the native speakers. Data were analyzed with using translational and pragmatic distributional methods. The result shows that there are six kinds of address terms which exist in Manna city, namely proper name, kinship terms based on bloodline status, kinship terms based on marital status, title and rank address terms, noun address terms, and zero feature term. The social factors which can influence the use of address terms in Manna Serawai language are age, gender, generation, social status, bloodline status, marital status, setting, and intimacy.