PUJIAN DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS DAN BAHASA MONGONDOW (SUATU ANALISIS KONTRASTIF)

Abstract

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This research entitled “Compliments in English and Mongondow Language: A Contrastive Analysis”. The objectives of this research are to identify, classify, and to contrast the topics and responses of compliments in English and Mongondow languages. This research uses a descriptive method. The data of compliments in English were collected from films entitled Forever my Girl (2018) and A Star is Born (2018), while the data of compliments in Mongondow language were collected from observation of conversations among people who live in Kopandakan II and can speak Mongondow language well. The writer uses the theory of Wolfson in Richards and Shcmidt (1986) to identifi, classifi, and describe the data about the topics of compliment and the responses of compliment of both languages. The writer uses Lado’s theory (1957) to make a contrastive analis of both languages in finding out the similarities and differences of compliments and its responses in English and Mongondow language. This result shows that the topics of compliment in Mongondow language are personal attribute, possession, children, pet, accomplishment, and change in appearance, while in English Language are personal attribute, possession, children, pet, accomplishment, and change in appearance. The responses of compliment in Mongondow language are acceptance, agreement, rejection, shift, and return and the responses of compliment in English Language are acceptance, agreement, rejection, shift, and return. The similarities of the topics of compliment in Mongondow language and English language which are found namely personal attribute, possession, children, pet, accomplishment, and change in appearance, and the compliment responses in Mongondow language and English language namely acceptance, agreement, rejection, shift, and return. The differences of both languages namely the topics of compliment in Mongondow language is found about plants while in English language isn’t, while the responses of compliment in Mongondow language has shy while smilling, and laugh while in English language. The adjectival words which are used in English Language namely beautiful, proud, the best, ravishing, great, excited, cute, good, lucky, soft, kind, nice, amazing, very good, well, smells good, perfect, and awesome while in Mongondow language namely mo’ jago, mo’ lawak, mo’ sopan, mo’ bagu, mo’ pandoi, totok mo’ rajing, aidon no lunat, no’ lebeh pasung, no lebeh lantut, and ontongon mo’ muda. The verbal words used in Compliments namely like and love, and in Mongondow language mo’ ibog. The adjectival used frequently in English Language are beautiful, good, and great while in Mongondow language namely no’ lebeh pasung and mo’ bagu.

Keywords: Compliment, English and Mongondow Language, Contrastive Analysis