An Analysis of Javanese Idioms in Daily Conversation in Jombang Regency

This study is concerned with Javanese idioms used by the societies in Jombang. Its aims to analyze the meaning of Javanese idioms and the contexts of the use Javanese idioms in the society’s daily conversation in Jombang. It uses Leech (1981) theory to analyze the meaning of Javanese idioms and McCarthy and O’Dell (2010) to analyze the context of Javanese idioms. Javanese idioms unique phenomenon in language resulted from people’s creativity and commonly used. This study uses descriptive qualitative research. The data are taken from the utterances uttered by the societies that indicate Javanese idioms. The source of data is the societies in Jombang. The research instrument is the writer herself as the main researcher. The methods to collect the data are observation and interview method. The method to analyze the data is interactive model analysis. The researcher shows the meaning of idioms: someone who likes stealing something, hard work, live is just for a moment, a beautiful woman in a village and so on relating to context, it reveals evidences: in the context of heath (2 data), sadness (1 data), knowing and understanding (1 data), experience and perception (1 data), having problem (3 data), power and authority (1 data), structuring and talking argument (2 data), praise and criticism (8 data), opinion on people and action (7 data), behavior and attitude (3 data), effort (2 data), probability and luck (2 data), feeling (1 data), human relationship (1 data), commenting on language (1 data), memory (1 data), and advice (2 data).