PERGESERAN KATA “ENYONG” PADA MASYARAKAT JAWA DI KABUPATEN BATANG

Abstract

The diversity of languages in bilingual or multilingual societies can lead to the existence of language contacts as well as dialect contact in the community. Language contacts and dialect contacts in the context of multicultural societies have the potential to cause language shifting. This study was aimed to describe how was the dynamics of using enyong word in Batang regency society and what factors influenced enyong word to have language shift in Batang regency. This study used qualitative descriptive method. There were 15 informants consisted of five adults, five teenagers and five children. The data were collected through interview and observation. The research findings show that in the adult group who lived in the rural area said enyong and it was still maintained, but in the group of teenagers had shifted enyong to aku word. Whereas in the children group tended to use aku word and enyong depending on the situation and who they were talking to. When they talked to people that were close and in a relaxed situation, they tended to use the enyong word. While the people who live in urban areas, groups of adult, teenagers and children had shifted the enyong word into aku so it was very difficult to find people who still said the enyong word. The factors that influenced in language shifting from enyong word to aku were shyness, migrants, politeness and feeling as a yokels.