FIGURES OF SPEECH MINANGKABAU LOCALITY IN CARITO MINANG KINI BY HAKIMAH RAHMAH S. IN PADANG EKSPRES

Abstract

The research aimed to describe the locality style of Minangkabau in anecdotal texts “Carito Minang Kini: Barinam jo Rosalina” by Hakimah Rahmah S. in Padang Ekspres (CMK: BJR), which includes rhetoric devices and figures of speech. The type of research is qualitative descriptive which applied content analysis method. The research data are words, phrases, clauses, or sentences that can be formulated as a locality style of Minangkabau. The data source of this research is anecdotal texts in CMK: BJR issued in January and February 2016 consisting of eight issues. The data analysis was conducted by: (1) classifying the locality style of Minangkabau found in a rhetorical assertion and figures of speech based on the theory, (2) analyzing the style according to the subcategory of rhetoric devices and figures of speech of Minangkabau locality style, (3) interpreting the trends of locality style of Minangkabau in texts CMK: BJR, and (4) concluding the study. The findings show that in the texts CMK: BJR there are: (1) the locality rhetoric devices which consist of: (a) confirmation in the form of climax, redundancy, and hyperbole and (b) disputes in the form of an antithesis; (2) the locality figures of speech that consist of (a) a comparison in the form of metaphor and allusion, and (b) satire in the form of sarcasm, cynicism and irony. Among the styles that were found, the dominant locality rhetoric device is affirmation in the form of hyperbole and the dominant figurative language style is satire in the form of sarcasm.

Keywords

• stylistic
• rhetorical
• figure of speech