DIRECTIVES IN JAVANESE OF TEGAL: A CASE STUDY OF DRAMA ON PERTIWI RADIO

Abstract

Drama on the radio is still one of the effective media to convey messages to its listeners. Pertiwi Radio, owned by the local government of Tegal regency, is one of radio stations in the region to convey messages, especially from the government to public living in the region and surrounding towns. The radio station is still used by the local government to inform its listeners and public in the form of drama broadcast in Javanese of Tegal. The content of the drama vary in terms of fields, such farming, local distric head election, the anniversary of Tegal district, etc. This paper aims at exploring how directive utterances are used in the drama by using speech acts theory. The data of the resaerch are in the form of directive utterances of the characters involved in the drama spoken in Javanese of Tegal. The data are collected through recording followed by transcribing the spoken data. The data are then anlyzed based on the forms and the functions of the utterances which are in the form of directives. The result shows that, 1) based on the form, the directive utterances tend to be expressed directly than indirectly, and 2) based on the function, the directive utterances are use to ask, to command, to demand, to forbid, to suggest, and to warn.