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

Abstract

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     This research is entitled “Compliments in English and Sangirese Language: A Contrastive Analysis.†The objectives of this research are to classify, to identify, and to describe the topic of compliments and compliment responses in English and Sangirese language, and to analyze the similarities and the differences of the compliments and compliment responses in both languages. This research uses a descriptive method. The data of compliments and compliment responses in English language were collected from films, novel, and journals, while the data in Sangirese language were collected from the informants of native speaker by doing observation. The data that have been collected then analyze by using the theory of Wolfson in Richard and Schmidt (1986) and the theory of Richard and Schmidt (1986), the writer uses Lado (1957) theory to make a contrastive analysis of both languages in finding out the similarities and differences of compliments and compliment responses in English and Sangirese language. The result shows that the topics of compliment in English consist of personal attribute, possession, pet, children, accomplishment, and change in appearance and the topic of compliments in Sangirese language consists of personal attribute, possession, pet, children, accomplishment, and change in appearance. The compliments responses in English are acceptance, agreement, rejection, shift, and return, and the compliments responses in Sangirese are acceptance, agreement, rejection, shift, and return. The differences of both languages namely the topics of compliment in Sangirese language is found about food, while English language isn’t. The responses in Sangirese language about plants, while English language about smile. The adjectival words which are used in English compliments namely beautiful, nice, handsome, increadible, great, cool, awesome, extraordinary, good, amazing, attractive, accomplished, interesting, annoyed, happy, perfect, dear, real, and cute, while in Sangirese namely masadada, mapaele, buhu, lucu, mantape, geguwa, natawa, marange, magurang, pandang, segare, and masedape. The verbal words used in English compliments namely love and like, in Sangirese language namely mapulu. The adjectival used frequently in English are beautiful, great, good, and in Sangirese namely masadada and mapaele.

Keywords: Compliments, English and Sangirese Language, Contrastive Analysis.