Imperative Sentences in English And Javanese Language

Abstract

This research concerned with the study of the similarities and differences between English and Javanese language which was aimed at finding the similarites and differences of the type, function and marker in imperative sentences. The sources of data were imperative sentences in English and Javanese language. The researcher applied the documentary and observation method (reading the references from books, internet and interviewing the informan) to collect the data. After collecting the data, the writer analyzed it by contrastive analysis method. It meant that she compared the similarity and difference of type, function and marker in English and Javanese imperative sentences. The types of imperative sentence in English and Javanese language could be positive and negative imperative. There were seven functions of imperative sentence in English; as command, suggestion, invitation, advice, prohibition, request, and compulsion. Meanwhile, in Javanese language, there were nine functions; the seven ones were like those in English and the other two were as panantang and pangece. Almost all of imperative sentences in Javanese were marked by suffixes -a, -ana, -na and –en. Thus, it could be concluded that imperative sentence in English and Javanese was not similar because of the different social-culture of those languages