AN ANALYSIS OF JARGON
SPOKEN BY CADRE OF HMI KOMISARIAT OEMAR BAKRIE
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
By :
Sociolinguistic 5C
Achmad Syaiful Badar 08360197
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG
2010 – 2011
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Language happens in any time and any places in our lives. It is used by people to comucate each other. They create social words and codes that have the meanings adopted by them in speech. In addition, they also emply a code that other people do not understandof them. In most case that code will be something we may want to call a language (Wardhaugh, 1988;1). The variety of language we can call it a code. The terms of it are crucial because it is quite natural. They show on a dialect, language, style, standard language, and etc express emotions, and variety is natural if compare the definiton of variety on some other, perhaps standard language. Deferent with the natural term and code can be used to any kind of sytem that two or more people communicate each other. It can actually be used for a system used by a singgle person, as when someone devises a private code to protect certain secrets (Wardhaugh, 1988; 86). Based on linguistics theory that social dimension causes language varieties. We found the language varieties not only as a sign of differenting its speech community but also as an indication of language situation and reflect purpose, topics, norms, and modes of language. Many people also created and spoke the language varieties bercause more interesting ang uniqe. One of those is Jargon. Jargon is confusing speech to who do not know and resulting particurarly from mingling of several language on dialect. The term is also strange language that sounds uncouth to us; in this sense, outlandish speech. Somewhat jargon means nonsense or gibberish. Jargon also
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