Pidginization or Not: A Case Study on English Used by Community of Gili Terawangan, Lombok

Widanta, I Made Rai Jaya and suardi, Paul and Handayani, Luh Nyoman Chandra and Suciani, Ni Ketut (2014) Pidginization or Not: A Case Study on English Used by Community of Gili Terawangan, Lombok. In: SEMINAR NASIONAL BAHASA IBU VII DALAM RANGKA MEMPERINGATI HARI BAHASA IBU INTERNASIONAL 2014. Udayana University Press, pp. 445-454. ISBN 978-602-7776-98-0

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Abstract

The article addresses whether or not the English used by community of Gili Terawangan Island, Lombok is considered pidgin. The research data was collected by field observation including recording, listening,, and note-taking. There were three people, one researcher and two researchers; assistants, participated in the data collection process. A number of villagers whose English conversation sentences were recorded were used as research subject. Data were taken from types of sentences built up of poorly-constructed English sentences spoken by the villagers when serving guests at any setting. There were a number of settings based on which conversation in English took place, including at restaurant, art shop, on the boat, on the road home stay, and at beach. Having collected, data was analyzed with sociolinguistic theory particularly that of language variety. Result upon the analysis showed that there are some factors which can be used to judge whether it is considered to be pidginized English or not. Some considerations were used for a judgment includes simplification of sentence structures, shift in pronunciation, fronting, interference of local culture, greeting system, and others. TO sum up, the variety of language is not considered pidginized English yet, Since it does not meet some criteria of pidgin.

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