Sociodialectology Study: Javanese Language in Friday Sermons in Karanganyar Regency

Abstract

The title of this research is “Sociodialectology Study: Javanese Language of Friday Sermons in Karanganyar Regency”. This topic is interesting to study because, (1) the level of understanding of speakers of Javanese, (2) the importance of communication using the mother tongue, (3) the development of traditional, national and international communication media, (4) the dynamic mobility of speakers, (5) the demands of traditional speakers to be able to understand current information, and others. This research method is descriptive qualitative, the research location is in Karanganyar Regency, the research data is in the form of lingual units with all their variations in the region for sermons by considering the social conditions of the speaker community. Data sources include language speakers as informants and other sources (written) if possible, the data can be obtained. Theoretically, this research is based on the concept of sociodialectology, namely a research process whose study method is interdisciplinary or macrolinguistic, because its perspective combines the fields of linguistics with the fields of sociology. For that, sociodialectology is a science that studies language variations in a number of regions by involving the social variables that surround it. Sociodialectology attempts to examine the relationship and mutual influence between language behavior and social behavior in a number of areas in Karanganyar. This perspective is to reveal the phenomenon of the emergence of lingual variations in the social hierarchy of society related to the use of Karanganyar Javanese (BjK). The lingual phenomenon that is still ongoing in the social hierarchy is reflected in the following research results. (1) Javanese lingual units that appear for sermons in the Karanganyar Regency community include Javanese ngoko, krama, krama inggil and krama desa lingual units. Thus, these lingual units show that some people understand the hierarchy of Javanese language potential and some do not understand, especially related to the level of Javanese speech. Phenomenologically, it proves that there is an interesting case of sociodialectology of language for sermons in Karanganyar Regency. (2) The objective conditions of the socio-dialectological Javanese language phenomenon that occurred in Karanganyar Regency include, among other things, the preacher trying to become one with the community or congregation, adapting to the community's understanding of language, the preacher trying to understand the community's language to convey the contents of the sermon, the preacher trying as best as possible to appear in the local language without eliminating the beautiful (literary) nature of the language, (3) The reasons for the socio-dialectological variations in Javanese sermons in Karanganyar Regency include adapting to the community's level of understanding, avoiding miscommunication, using the local community's distinctive language, metaphors to avoid direct targets, and the mission and vision of the sermon being achieved without unnecessary turmoil.