A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY ON REGISTERS USED IN
CARD GAME ( A CASE STUDY OF REGISTER IN SIDOMULYO )
by
Irawan Romli
Language is a basic tool in society. It is used to make communication.
Language allows some people to say thing to each other and express their
communicative needs. Language is the cement of the society, allowing people to
live, working and playing together. Sometimes it is used to merely keep
communication channels open so that if any need arises to say something of
importance a suitable channel is avaiable.
The correlation between language and society is learned in
sociolinguistics. Wardhaugh (2000:12) states that sociolinguistics concerns
with investigating the relationship between language and society with the goal
of being a better understanding of the structure of language and how language
functions in communication. From the definition above, it can be inferred that
language and society is so closely related.
In society, a lot of people use many kinds of variety in using language,
Indonesian or Java language. Many language varieties which describe the changes
in situation and factor. Each occupational group or social group has the
difference. So, each group has differences in registers. For example in domino
card games, especially in card games.
Card game is a game which is usually played by 2 until 4 people. In card game
there are many kinds of the games, but the writer just study two kinds of this
game, especially in writers village. There are domino card game and bridge card
game. The domino has one game that is gaple game, then bridge also has
one game that is poker game.
Game has a lot of fun, if every one look at and join the games, they will
laugh and feel happy because for some players beside they play they also make
some jokes. In addition, some players come from various level of community,
such as entrepreneur, lecturer, teacher, journalist, etc. All of them feel enjoyable
although they have to spend much time. In the games, there are many specific
words of registers created. The writer makes some list of them. In gaple
(domino) there are; pass, nyiang, point, poldan, etc. While in poker
games (bridge) there are; full house, pair, two, ace, etc. Although
there are many people who understand the meaning of the register, usually they
do not know when or how the register is used, because of that the writer is interested
in doing this research which is closely related to register in card game in the
writer’s village.
Beside that, in his village in every year exactly on August 17th,
some events of competition are held especially for gaple games. Sometimes poker
game is used by some young men to spend the night in independence day celebration.
This is a regular event held once a year.
Beside those games (Gaple and Poker), in poker as well as gaple, there
are many terms unfamiliar for other people.. The terms are, qiu-qiu,
tek-pok, orok, etc. Also, in bridge games there are remi, cap-sha,
sang-gong, etc. However he wants to study this subject focused on only two
games: gaple and poker games, since these games have many registers which many
people do not understand about. Because of that the writer was interested in
doing this research.
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