Sociolinguistic Study of Addressing Terms and Affixes In Tere Liye’s Novel Sagaras

Abstract

Addressing terms and affixes are two aspects that are always contained in every communicating language. Commonly, addressing terms are used to call someone and affixes turn basic words so it has an advanced meaning to succeed the communication, between people. Learning addressing terms and affixes through Indonesian literature has figured out how many variations of addressing terms, and the affixes with the culture. This paper was conducted by collecting the data by reading the novel book written by TERE LIYE entitled: “SagaraS”, using descriptive qualitative method. As a result, the writer has found 1387 various addressing terms and 1641 and more affixes. To help readers get to understand the writer has displayed examples with descriptions of each illustration served. The result also shows a contractive meaning of every affix, even though it is the same prefix or suffix. This research is meant to show the variety of addressing terms and affixes from the Indonesian point of view. This paper is not the first research describing addressing terms and affixes, surely readers will learn something.