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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is a sociolinguistic study about the use of casual style markers
of Indonesian variety by a small group of speakers of Banjarese Background. The
writer chose this topic for her study. She is interested in the uniqueness of the
language varieties being used. The thing that has caught the writer’s attention and
curiosity to write this study is the uniqueness of the characteristics of the casual
style that is produced by the Banjarese-Speaking Students. The purposes of this
study were to find out the characteristics of the casual style of Banjarese-speaking
students and find out social meanings that are conveyed by students of Banjarese
background. The writer reviewed the Markers of style theory consisting of lexical
markers of style, phonological markers of style, and Grammatical Markers of
Style as her literature. For the source of the data, the writer took the students of
Petra Christian University who are Banjarese speakers. In this study, the writer
herself acted as the instrument of the study. She analyzed the data by classifying
the markers into phonological and morphological analysis. Therefore, the writer
found the variation of the characteristics of the Style Markers of Casual Style of
Banjarese-Speaking Students and the social meanings that are conveyed in it. The
characteristics of casual style found in Banjarese-speaking conversation was
divided into phonological features and morphological features. Phonological
features consist of merging of the vowel pairs [ia-], [ai-], [au-] on words, final
glotal [-k] pronunciation on words, deletion of prefix [meN-], deletion of vowel
sounds, and deletion of consonant sounds. Besides, morphological features were
consist of the fifteen of Banjarese clitics. They are [tu-], [nah-], [jak-], [lok-], [ni-
], [lah-], [kan-], [kah-], [jar-], [pang-], [jua-], [ai-], [am-], [kam-], and [gin-]. Each
of those productions in their communication has social meaning that is associated
with them. They represent some sign of intimate relationship, especially as a
means of expressing solidarity and affective meaning.