By
Syahlia Rachmani
02026097
ABSTRACT
Syahlia Rachmani
02026097
ABSTRACT
Language is a principal tool of communication to make relationship and to work together among people in their daily life, both for people as individuals and as a group. Human beings use language to communicate to have an interaction with others. Language is used by everyone, everywhere, every time and the problem in communication appears when a speaker of certain group instructs other group that uses different language. In this research, the writer is interested in analyzing language used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University. The writer conducts this research with several objectives, they are (1) to identify the forms of sport jargon, (2) to identify the functions of sport jargon and (3) to identify the meanings of sport jargon used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University.
In this research, the writer uses observation method. The main data are taken from basketball players in basketball game, and some instruments such as: internet, note books about basketball, and other researches about jargon to support the data. The writer uses observation and dialogue technique (teknik simak libat cakap) to collect the data, and uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The analysis is focused on the forms, functions, and meanings of sport jargon used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University.
The result of the research shows that there are four forms of sport jargon, they are (1) Abbreviation, (2) Acronym, (3) Word and (4) Phrase. The highest frequency is 26.24% of the form of phrase, and 10.88% of word, and 3.2% of abbreviation, and the lowest frequency is acronym with 0.64%. The functions of sport jargon used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University are (1) to give a person a sense of belonging to a specific group. (2) to make a person easy to communicate for each of players. The meaning of sport jargon can be concluded that all sport jargons used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University is denotative meaning and there is no connotative meaning.
In this research, the writer uses observation method. The main data are taken from basketball players in basketball game, and some instruments such as: internet, note books about basketball, and other researches about jargon to support the data. The writer uses observation and dialogue technique (teknik simak libat cakap) to collect the data, and uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The analysis is focused on the forms, functions, and meanings of sport jargon used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University.
The result of the research shows that there are four forms of sport jargon, they are (1) Abbreviation, (2) Acronym, (3) Word and (4) Phrase. The highest frequency is 26.24% of the form of phrase, and 10.88% of word, and 3.2% of abbreviation, and the lowest frequency is acronym with 0.64%. The functions of sport jargon used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University are (1) to give a person a sense of belonging to a specific group. (2) to make a person easy to communicate for each of players. The meaning of sport jargon can be concluded that all sport jargons used by basketball players in Ahmad Dahlan University is denotative meaning and there is no connotative meaning.
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