Abstract:
The use of a particular style of a language by a particular group also appears in
conversations between doctors and nurses in hospital. Visitors (common people)
often find it hard to understand the terms used in hospital as they do not have
enough knowledge about the meaning of those particular terms. Only the insiders
(hospital staff) are able to use the medical terms. This situation indicates the
emergence of a language variety, which is known as register. This study aims to
describe the types of register language variation used in Nadiem Makarim’s
speech, and to find out the meanings of register language variation used in
Nadiem Makarim’s speech, The scope of this research is a study of language
variation, especially in register found in Nadiem Makarim’s speech on the
commemoration of the National Teacher’s Day on November 25, 2019 on the
behalf of the Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud). The research is
limited in a register of Nadiem Makarim’s speech based on Halliday’s theory that
register is divided into field, tenor and mode. The researcher also analyses the
meanings of register in Nadiem Makarim’s speech. From the 56 data including
the words and phrase in Nadiem Makarim’s speech, the types of register used are
Field, Tenor and Mode. The most common types of register is Field in which
there are 25 words or phrase or 44.65%, The meanings of the register found in
Nadiem Makarim’s speech are greeting, respecting, stating, apologizing,
informing and declaring. The most common meaning of register in Nadiem
Makarim’s speech is informing in which there are 19 words or phrases or
33.92%.
