A Study of Madurese Dialect Spoken on Bawean Island. Thesis

Aslinda. 140511100019. A Study of Madurese Dialect Spoken on Bawean Island.
Thesis. English Study Program of The Faculty of Social and
Cultural Sciences, University of Trunojoyo Madura. Advisor:
Misnadin, S.S., M.A., Ph.D.
This study focuses on the concepts of lexical variation found in the
Madurese dialect spoken in Bawean Island and how does the Bawean dialect of
Madurese differs from the Madurese spoken in Madura proposed by Trudgill
(2004). This study aims to find and explain the concepts of lexical variation found
in the Madurese dialect spoken on Bawean island proposed by Purba (2016). It is
because Bawean language is a typical dialect of Madurese language (Utami &
Anggraini, 2019). However, it is mixed by Malay, Javanese and Singapore.
This study uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. The source
of data in this study is the Madurese people and four people from Bawean, while
the data are the words which contain concepts of lexical variation found in the
Madurese dialect spoken in Bawean island. To collect the data, the writer uses
interviewing method in which the writer interviewed and listened to what the
informants said. Then, the writer continued to analyze and explain the data used
interactive method.
This study shows the finding of the concepts of lexical variation and how
the Bawean dialect differ from the Madurese spoken in Madura. There are 40 data
found in Madurese dialect spoken in Bawean Island. According to the finding data,
there are two concepts of lexical variation. The two concepts of lexical variation
are formal concepts 7 data, and informal concepts 33 data. The dominant concepts
of lexical variation found in the Madurese dialect spoken in Bawean island are
informal concepts. Then, there are two caused of how does the Bawean dialect
differ from the Madurese spoken in Madura. They are caused of the influence of
regional dialect 18 data and the social dialect 12 data which divided into 8 social
dialect in the teenager’s group and 4 data of social dialect in old age group. The
most caused of how does the Bawean dialect differ from the Madurese spoken in
Madura is regional dialect.
Keywords: Dialect, Lexical Variation, Concepts of Lexical Variation, and
Caused of the Differentiate of Bawean Dialect from Madurese.