A SOCIAL CONTEXTOF SASAK PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Abstract

Forms, meanings, dialects, and characteristics of Sasak language Pronouns were discussed by Nurhadi This ethnographical research gathered the information from the informants in a Bayan community in North Lombok, west Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The informants were selected in terms of their age, mobile and their speaking Indonesia ability. The language practices were observed and the informants were in-depth interviewed. Personal pronoun sentences were analysedby employing a referential identity method with deviding-key-factors techniques. Bayan people communicate pronouns in two directions: from low-to-high pronouns and high-to-low pronouns. low-to-high pronouns refers raden-to-menak and menak-to-jajar karang. high-to-low pronouns refers to jajar karang-to-menak and raden, menak-to-raden. Amonst the levels, they may speak pronouns variously, considering ages, position, and status. The personal pronouns they seem to apply are aku, tiang and dawek diq, kamu, epe, sida, pelinggih, and pelungguh. Social relation, and gender so far do not indicate an effect on applying personal pronouns.