A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF REGISTER
USED ON CAVING DIVISION
Human
is very different creature compared to other creatures. Human beings are social
creatures among the others. God gives human being with thought and feeling. As
human being, they always interact with other persons. To have this interaction
they need language to gain a communication.
Language is the most important tool
in the relationship between person to person in a social group, community and
society. Kramsach (1983: 3) notes that language is the principal means whereby people
conduct their social lives. In everyday life people use
language for different purposes. Beside
for communication, language is also used for negotiation, introduction and
socialization. In other words, communication cannot be
separated from language and society.
The correlation between language and society is learned
in sociolinguistics. Wardhaugh
(2000: 12) states 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 the communication. The
definition above can be inferred that language and society is so closely
related.
In society, people use many kinds
of language varieties that describe the changes in situational factors, such as
address, setting and topics. Each occupational group or social or social group
has the difference of specific vocabularies associated. Therefore, each group
has a different register, for example in caving division of an adventure team.
There
are many divisions in the adventure team, such as rock climbing, mountain, rafting and
caving. Caving division is a division that focuses on how to explore a cave; it
relates with the technique how to enter a cave, and what the equipment
necessary for it. The person who active and exist in the caving division is
called caver. A caver must be mastering the technique of cave exploration. To
exploring a cave, the caver needs equipment to support the exploration and to
make it run safely.
The
most popular technique among the others is SRT (Single Rope Technique), this
technique just use a rope and usually used in exploring a vertical cave. There
are some systems in this technique, they are Texas system, Rope wiker system, Floating
cam system, Jummar system, Frog rig system.
There
are so many registers used on Frog rig system. For example,
organize, ascending, descending etc. Although there are many people who understand the meaning of the
registers, they usually do not know the when or how the register used. For that reasons, the writer is interested in doing this research
closely related to register in caving division and hopes it can help the
readers to find out the solution of their problem in understanding the
register.
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