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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis is a sociolinguistic study of the speech styles used by the main male
character in Ca Bau Kan, Tan Peng Liang, when speaking to the three different
addressees of different social status: Max Awuy whose status is lower than Tan
Peng Liang?s, Jeng Tut whose status is equal to Tan Peng Liang?s and J.P
Verdoorn whose status is higher than Tan Peng Liang?s. The writer wants to find
out the types of speech styles used by Tan Peng Liang when speaking to those
three different addressees. Moreover, the writer also wants to know the types of
speech styles mostly used by Tan Peng Liang to each of those three different
addressees. Moreover, this research is based on Joos?s (1976) and Nababan?s
(1993) theory about speech styles. There are five types of speech styles: frozen,
formal, consultative, casual and intimate style. In addition, the writer also refers to
Abdul Chaer (2000) and Kridalaksana (1984) theories on the lexical and
grammatical characteristics for standard Indonesian as the basis of her analysis.
The results of this study indicate that formal, consultative, casual and intimate
style are the speech styles used by Tan Peng Liang when speaking to Jeng Tut and
J.P Verdoorn. Only when speaking to Max Awuy, Tan Peng Liang uses three
types of speech styles namely, formal, consultative and casual styles. He never
uses the intimate style eventhough Max?s social status is lower than Tan Peng
Liang?s. Among those five speech styles, consultative style is the most dominant
one. More than half of the utterances produced by Tan Peng Liang are about
consultative style. It is in line with the fact that consultative style is the commonly
used speech styles in everyday speech (Joos, 1976).