STYLISTIC IN JAVANESE URBAN LEGEND STORIES: A CASE STUDY IN RUBRIC ALAMING LELEMBUT IN PANJEBAR SEMANGAT MAGAZINE

Abstract

Folklore as a part of literature has an important role in society. As the interpretation of culture in the society, folklore is called by the culture of idea. Urban legend as a tale of contemporary folklore is often designed to elicit an emotional response from the audience. It is about some horrific, ironic, or exasperating series of events that supposedly happened to a real person. Javanese urban legend has a close relationship with the life of Javanese people and it influences Javanese people‘s point of view and way of thinking. While, stylistic is the study of the usage of language in literary works, by considering the social background and communication value of the literary work. The aim of this study is to analyze the stylistic in Javanese urban legend stories. The data were taken from rubric Alaming Lelembut in Javanese magazine Panjebar Semangat. Alaming Lelembut is a rubric which contains Javanese urban legend stories. The data were four stories which were already published in 2011. The data were analyzed by using the stylistic theory. The result shows that by using Ngoko Alus in telling the stories, the message of the story could be delivered to the reader and it could reinforce the message of urban legend. As the representation of Javanese culture, the usage of Javanese original terminologies for urban legend characters brought their own message to the reader and those words delivered the message to the society.