A Study Of Language Style In Tourist’s Guide Of Bukit Lawang

Abstract

This study investigated language style used in conversation between tourist guide and foreign tourist in Bukit Lawang. The objectives was to identify the types of language style used in conversation between tourist guide and foreign tourist, and also found the dominant types of language style that realized on conversation. This study used descriptive qualitative method, this technique was carried out in analyzing data by Miles and Huberman with the steps were data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. The procedure of data collection was collecting the data from listening voice record of tourist guide and foreign tourist became a scripts, then reading scripts, identifying the data, then analyzing each of their utterances. The researcher used Zulaekho theory in this research. The researcher has found of the data on 51 dialogues and found 86 utterances as the data to analyzed. Based on analysis of data, the most dominant types of language style that realized used by tourist guide and foreign tourist at Bukit Lawang was consultative style and casual style