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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about a sociolinguistic study on the chastisement expression of
Petra Christian University students classified into Chinese and Javanese, Female and
Male. The chastisement here has a limitation in status that is from higher to lower
only. This research aims to discover the influence of the ethnic and gender groups of
the employers on the semantic features of the chastisement expression. This is a
qualitative study and the source is taken from 60 Petra Christian University students
divided into 4 groups: 15 Chinese females, 15 Chinese males, 15 Javanese females,
and 15 Javanese males.
The instrument used is an interview in order to find out the background of the
respondents and chastisement responses based on a topic that can escalate the
respondents? emotion. By recording, transcribing, classyfying tabulating, analysing,
and then calculating each of the semantic features in chastisement utterances, the
tendency of each group in expressing chastisements is discovered. Research finds that
basically all of the respondents have similarities in expressing chastisements that is
they tend to criticize and state the error of the maids. However, further observation
finds out that there are some differences relating to gender and ethnic groups. The
females from both ethnic groups tend to be more indirect compared to the males.
Although the data discovers that the cultures of both ethnic groups are not completely
reflected in the chastisement responses, this research still finds the little influence of
the cultures in them. The Javanese females incline to be more indirect compared to
the Chinese females. However, the males from both ethnic groups do not show a
significant difference.