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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelWhen people speak they always face language variety. In a speech
community, people can use different language varieties; either it is standard or
nonstandard language, to communicate with others (Holmes, Ed, 2001, p. 74).
Holmes stated that as people get older their speech becomes gradually more
standard (2001, p. 169). It leads the writer try to know the way females use
nonstandard Indonesian words based on age differences. The writer took two
different magazines as her souce of data. They are Gadis Magazine from the
younger female writers and Ayah - Bunda Magazine from the older female
writers. This study aims to find out the types of nonstandard Indonesian words in
both magazines and whether the younger female writers use more nonstandard
Indonesian words than the older ones. To reach the research objectives, theories
on female language, age differences supported by theory on standard and
nonstandard Indonesian words were applied. Furthermore, by using the qualitative
approach, the writer gathered the data to be further analyzed. The result was that,
apparently, the types of nonstandard Indonesian word in Gadis magazine were
more various than the ones found in Ayah - Bunda magazine. There were nine out
of eleven types of nonstandard Indonesian word appeared in Gadis Magazine;
while, in Ayah - Bunda magazine only eight types of nonstandard Indonesian
words. The writer found some similar types of nonstandard Indonesian words in
both magazines. They are the use of nonstandard suffix -in, the use of prefix ke-in
the base word, deletion, nonstandard words, adjustment of foreign words, and
foreign words. The writer also noticed there were also some types that occur in
Gadis but not in Ayah - Bunda and vice versa. At the end of her research, the
writer conclude that the younger females used more nonstandard Indonesian
words than the older females.