TINDAK TUTUR DALAM PARNO ADAT PERKAWINAN MASYARAKAT SUNGAI PENUH

Abstract

This paper deals with the speech act, speech strategy,, and their use in the context of
Parno Adat in Sungai Penuh society. Parno Adat refers to traditional utterances used by
the communities in Sungai Penuh from generation to generation. The data of this study
were taken from all of speeches delivered by the male siblings of the mother who called
Tengganai. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative methode. For the
validity of the data, the writer also interviewed Tengganai both from female and male
family. A number of theoretical concepts used for the data analysis, some of them were
the concepts of speech acts taken from Searle, (1969). Gunarwan (1994), and the
politeness principles stated by Brown and Levinson (1987), social factor, social class,
and dimension stated by Holmes (2001). From the data analysis, the results show that
there are five types of speech acts used by the Tengganai, namely the speech act of (1)
representatives, such as reporting, stating, and blessing, (2) directives which includes
requesting, s, and ; uggesting, questioning, (3) expressives that covers the speech act of
praising, thanking, greeting, criticizing, and; (4) commissives in terms promising, and
threatening; and (5) declarations in terms of deciding, and forgiving. The results also
show that the more widely types used by Tengganai were the speecha act of
representative in terms of blessing and the speech act of directive in accordance with
asking for the marriage proposal. Furthermore, the most widely strategy used by
Tengganai was off record with indirect strategy Such finding implies that the politeness
principles are still applied in the community in the context of the marriage proposal event
in Sungai Penuh. The implication of this study devoted to the development of knowledge
about Parno adat in Sungai Penuh and to develop the principles of politeness in
communication for the students to apply and also as an effort to preserve the traditional
culture itself.

Keywords: Parno Adat, tengganai, speech act, communication strategy.