English Language Styles used by the members of Pondok Pesantren Darul Abidin Pare Kediri

ABSTRACT

Language is actually the realization of what is thought or oral thoughts, it means that language is built by several components that have permanent constructions and meaning. There are three factors reflected in language. Those three factors are physical environment, social environment and social values. The physical environment is a circumstance or a place in which groups live; people who live in a small village or small groups have some differences in speaking from one that lives in a town and small groups, and then Chaika states that different situations called different styles, it means that people do not speak in exactly the same way in every situation. Due to the statement above, this stud y is
conducted to investigate the t ypes of the language styles and ways of the language styles used by the members of Darul Abidin Cottage Pare Kediri in everyday communication.

In conducting this study, the researcher used qualitative methods. The data
are taken from the words and the utterances of their everyday communication from January 20, 2007 to February 2, 2007. To get the valid data, the researcher used some instruments, those are: (1) observation, it is used to know the real situation, (2) record, because the data are in the form of spoken language, so it is used to get the accurate data (3) field notes, it is used to note everything happened during the members are delivering the language styles, and (4) interview is also used to know the ways they used their communication according to the result of the observation and field notes. Then, the data are analyzed by identifying, categorizing, discussing, comparing, and drawing conclusion.

The findings of this study show that there are three types of language
styles used by the members of Darul Abidin Cottage Pare Kediri. (1) Formal style is used in serious sentence and certain occasion. (2) Informal style is less serious than formal style to make relaxed situation and condition. (3) Colloquial style is less serious than informal style to make good relationship between the members. The ways the members used the language styles are (a) Formal style has relatively short sentence, structure sentence rule, and strong voice, (b) Informal style has unclear sentence and the diction are quite different from the colloquial styles, (c) Colloquial style has the familiar words and influences the background of personal culture. The most dominant of language style used by the members of Darul Abidin Cottage Pare Kediri is formal language style.

Finally, after finishing this stud y, the researcher hopes that this study can give contribution to the researcher himself, and to the reader or to the further researchers who conduct the same study. Hopefully further researchers who conduct a similar study could complete this research not only in the kinds of language styles used but also in their physiological and speech act.