WARTEG’ FOOD SELLERS’ LANGUAGE ATTITUDES TOWARD TEGAL DIALECT OF JAVANESE LANGUAGE IN SEMARANG

Abstract

This paper presents a sociolinguistics research on multilingual society which aims to describe the language attitudes and language choice of the food sellers of Tegal food stalls (warteg) in Semarang toward Tegal dialect of Javanese Language (TL). The language choice research was also done to support the respondents’ answer in language attitude questions. The data was collected during June and July 2016 to warteg food sellers in Semarang as the respondents. The questionnaires were assessed about their agreement or disagreement for 10 statements on a five-point Likert type scale. The respondents were also being asked about the language used to talk to others in their daily activities. Using mean score, Likert type formula and Independent t test, the results indicated that the total 111 respondents still have positive attitudes toward TL even though they live outside of Tegal area. They prefer to use TL than other languages to talk to other Tegalese.