Indonesia has many
different languages and culture. It has interesting phenomena of language
choice in multilingual society. Yogyakarta is one of the cities that has
multilingual society where many students from another city and country live and
study in Yogyakarta. Therefore, the members of society certainly choose what
language, when, and to whom they speak. This is interesting for the writer to
understand more about the phenomena of language choice among the various
students in their daily lives, especially the students of Muhammadiyah 3 Junior
High School which it has students from different city. In short, this research
is aimed to understand and describe the language choice in Muhammadiyah 3
Junior High School as a multilingual society.
This essay is a qualitative
research. In collecting the data, the writer did direct interview with 50
students randomly at Muhammadiyah 3 Junior High School. Then, the collected
data were selected to be classified based on the origin of the students. After
that, the data were classified again based on domains, addressee, and topic
determine the language choice. Next, those data were described with other
social factors proposed by Holmes like social distance, status scale, and
degree of formality and goals of the interaction.
The result of the
research exhibits that Muhammadiyah 3 Junior high school come from at least 8
provinces in Indonesia and 2 students from different country. The domains of
language used among the students are family, friendship, religion, education,
and neighborhood. The regional languages with informal style are always used in
the domain of friendship, whereas national language and formal style are used
in the domains of education, religion and family. The formal style used when
they talk formal topic and used when talking with older people. Then, specific
social factors proposed by Holmes like social distance, relative status or role
(teacher – pupil), degree of formality and the function or goal of interaction
that influence to language choice.
Keyword: language
choice, multilingual, domain of language
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