The Study of Register Used by Campus Prostitutes in Kamal Region

This study focuses on the registers especially the criteria of registers and the functions of register used by Campus Prostitutes in Kamal region. In addition, to analyze the data, this study uses the theory proposed by Jassem (2013) to analyze the criteria and Halliday (1985) to analyze the functions. Moreover, this study is conducted by applying a qualitative research design since the data are in the form of words. The sources of data of this study are the Campus Prostitutes in Kamal region and the data are the expressions of Campus Prostitutes that contain registers. The data are collected by using non participant observations method and analyzed by using interactive model analysis.
The findings of this study show 50 data. The writer classifies the data based on the criteria proposed by Jassem (2013). The 50 data can be included all into the criteria, they are; topic, lexis, grammar, style and audience. The writer also classifies the functions of registers based on the Function proposed by Halliday (1985), the functions are; instrument, interaction, personal, heuristics, imagination and informantion. On the data, four functions of register are found, while two functions are not found.

Keywords: Campus Prostitutes, Register, Kamal.