Language Attitude and Choice By Minangkabau language Community: A Sociolinguistic Study In Lingkungan 16 PekanLabuhan

Abstract

This research deals with the study of language attitude and language choice among Minangkabau Teenager. The objective of the research was to investigate the realization of language attitude by Minangkabau teenagers in Lingkungan 16 Pekan Labuhan and it also to find language choice used by teenagers Minangkabau in Lingkungan 16 Pekan Labuhan. The research is kind of field research descriptive qualitative research was applied to analyzed the data. There were 40 teenagers taken as respondents in this research. The data in this research was taken from questionnaires consist 19 questions which are 9 question lead to language attitude and 10 questions lead to language choice. The result of the data found that the language attitude was negative attitudes. Minangkabau teenagers do not master the language of origin, consider parental language not important and Minangkabau teenagers also considers Indonesian to be sufficient as a symbol of regionalism. Minangkabau teenagers also choose Bahasa Indonesia in daily conversation with family and friends. When their meet fellow same ethnic outside their homes they were also used Bahasa Indonesia, because they consider Indonesian to feel more familiar and more beautiful than Indonesian