Faktor Jurnal Ilmiah Kependidikan Vol. 7 No. 1 Maret 2020, hal 33-36

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING SONTOLOYO POLITICIAN IN THE MR. JOKO WIDODO SPEECH

Dede Irawan Dosen FKIP. Bahasa Inggris Universitas Wiralodra Indramayu

Abstrak: Semantic is a branch of linguistics that studies the meaning contained in a language, code, or another type of representation. In this research, the writer tries to analyze the semantic meaning of sontoloyo politician is conveyed by Mr. Joko widodo that use qualitative research design because this method is more focused on analyzing the meaning diction of sontoloyo politician which is expected to know core meaning and aim from this diction. The result of this research can be concluded that Sontoloyo politician has a connotative meaning, because the sontoloyo politician has meant that explain " the people who have political positions, political experts, and expert statesmen as like legislative, executive and judicial positions who have wrong behavior in carrying out their duties" in this statement has a communicative value and an expression based on intention must have conceptual content that not only includes physical characteristics, but also social and psychological.

Abstract: Semantic adalah cabang linguistik yang mempelajari makna yang terkandung dalam bahasa, kode, atau jenis representasi lainnya. Dalam penelitian ini penulis mencoba menganalisis makna semantik politisi sontoloyo yang disampaikan oleh Pak Joko Widodo yang menggunakan desain penelitian kualitatif, karena metode ini lebih fokus pada analisis makna diksi politisi sontoloyo yang diharapkan mengetahui makna inti dan tujuan dari diksi tersebut. Hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa politisi Sontoloyo memiliki makna konotatif, karena politisi sontoloyo memiliki makna yang menjelaskan “orang-orang yang memiliki posisi politik, pakar politik, dan pakar negarawan seperti posisi legislatif, eksekutif dan yudikatif yang memiliki perilaku salah dalam menjalankan tugasnya ”dalam pernyataan ini memiliki nilai komunikatif dan ekspresi berdasarkan pada konten konseptual murni dan tidak hanya mencakup karakteristik fisik, tetapi juga properti sosial dan psikologis.

Key Words: Semantic Analysis and Sontoloyo Politician

INTRODUCTION understanding of Indonesian is more as a unifying tool for the nation. The resulting The nature of language is a system in the speech is the result of absorption from regional form of a sound symbol which means an and international dialects. So tribes from other arbitrator and is unique and conventional. Not regions can easily interact in different places only is that means also dynamically adapted using this utterance. There are raw and non- to the times and universally. So anyone can standard ones. find out and use it. Certainly one of the others According to Owen in Stiawan (2006: has variations and characteristics. However, 1) said that the language can be defined as a it does not matter because there is a national socially shared combinations of symbols and identity that can unite all the differences. If rules governed combinations of those symbols it is looked at more specifically, then the and also language can be defined as socially

33 Dede Irawan, Semantic Analysis Of The Meaning Sontoloyo Politician In The Mr. Joko Widodo Speech ...... accepted codes or conventional systems to using titles, utilizing generalizations, patterns convey concepts through the use of desired of quotation, and overlexicalisation, language symbols and combinations of symbols has the power to explain the intentions and governed by the provisions. It can be desires of people who use it. A presidential concluded Language is a form and not a candidate in his campaign speech uses condition or something an arbitrary sound- ideographs and choose interesting words in symbol system, or also a system of many the form of "sweet promises” Ideographs is systems, a system of order in the system. very powerful for reaching political targets Because besides language has a of power seekers. This has been proven in the communication function, it also has a function world of power, as it was in the campaign of to self-expression, social control and also the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He integration, based on the explanation above, raised education (education, education, we can conclude that language has a very education) as the central issue of his campaign important role in people's lives both in in 1996, and drove him to become the prime establishing communication or for expressing minister of England, Kweldju (2008) says thoughts. In one hour someone can that ideography is a tool used by a politician communicate in four thousand to five thousand to support political, social, and cultural policies words and also people who are reading a or stability. Approaching the 2019 Presidential newspaper (scanning) use 14,000 to 15,000 and vice presidential elections in Indonesia, words every hour. and now days the propaganda is currently being issued by development of language uses is not only to politicians who aim to influence society and make communication with the other people create public opinion, many of whom but also language can also be seen from its deliberately build and create fearful situations. use in politics as a tool of propaganda or Nowadays there was a war diction and phrase satire, nowadays many politicians use between two candidates of president and vice language as a tool to attack political opponents. president such as the politics of lies, Tempe Maintain opinions or as political marketing. As thins as an ATM, Boyolali Looks, Blind, Language in the political realm is directed Deaf, politics of genderuwo and also at achieving political goals, namely obtaining Sontoloyo Politic that is conveyed by Mr. power or maintaining power. The languages Joko widodo in his speech, Fur sure the of the politicians who aim to attract the meaning of in the diction and phrase that attention of voters can be seen in various conveyed is not an actual meaning but it used media campaigns, such as billboards, banners, to satire to political opponent. As we know advertisements, candidates' business cards, In the linguistic perspective, there is branch and quotations from interviews that decorate linguistic that study about meaning that is the mass media. Jurgen Habermas said that semantic. Katz (1972: 1), says that “Semantics language is a media that get authority and is the study of linguistic meaning. It is also the most fundamental thing in politics concerned with what sentence and other used, as like the opinion of deLespinasse that linguistics object express, not with the said language as the principal means of politics arrangement with their syntactic parts or with and through the use of language reflected how their pronunciation.” Semantics has developed power is used. This is often referred to as and become a worthy study. Semantics is political language. Talbot, arkinson & important and worthy study because it has a Atkinson in Kweldju, 2008 explained factor in development linguistic field, the Language has a dominant role in politics First, the meaning is strictly connected with because political rhetoric also relies on communication. A certain meaning can be language tools, such as alliteration, repetition, delivered through communication plays an parallelism, and metaphor. Rhetoric is also important role in human life. Second, as a inseparable from expressive and poetic human process to understand the nature of expressions to be more interesting, besides meaning which involves mental abilities by

34 Faktor Jurnal Ilmiah Kependidikan Vol. 7 No. 1 Maret 2020, hal 33-36 using reasoning and perception. Leech (1989: languages, formal logic, and semiotics. The IX), explains "Semantics is the center of the meaning is an inseparable part of semantics study of communication, where and is always inherit from whatever we say. communication is an important factor in social Understanding of the meaning it is very organizations, the need to understand it diverse. Mansoer Pateda (2001: 79) suggests becomes more and more pressing. Semantics that the term meaning is confusing words and is also at the center of the study of the human terms. The meaning is always integrated into mind-thought process, cognition and the utterances of words and sentences. conceptualization. Based on some explanation According to Ullman (in Mansoer Pateda, about the correlation between language and 2001: 82) said that meaning is the relationship politic that used in diction, phrase, and also between meaning and understanding. In this satire in the president and vice president case Ferdinand de Saussure (in Abdul Chaer, election, The writer will analysis semantic 1994: 286) reveals the notion of meaning as meaning of diction sontoloyo politician that an understanding or concept that is owned or is conveyed Mr. Jokowi dodo. This research contained in a linguistic sign, In the Linguistic is expected to provide two benefits, Dictionary, the meaning of meaning is Theoretically, this research can give contribute translated into 1), the intent of the speaker; to the semantic scientific knowledge to analyze 2) the influence of the application of language the meaning of diction, Phrase and also a in the use of human or group human satire about political and also In practical perceptions or behavior; 3) relationship in the terms, this research is expected to understand sense of equivalence or incompatibility the aim of used diction Sontoloyo Politician in between language or between utterances and Mr. Joko widodo speech. all the things it shows, and 4) how to use language symbols. Depend on the explanation METHOD of the experts above, it can be concluded that The writer uses qualitative research the definition of meaning is very difficult to design in the research, because this method determine because each language user has is more focused on analyzing the meaning different abilities and perspectives in diction of sontoloyo politician which is interpreting a speech or word. expected to know core meaning and aim from Semantics is the study of the linguistic this diction, as we know in semantic there are meaning. It is not concerned with what some of the Kind meaning such as Conceptual sentences and other linguistics object Meaning, connotative meaning, social expressed and also not concerned with the meaning, affective meaning, reflected arrangements of syntactic parts, or with their meaning, collective meaning, and thematic pronunciation. Semantics could cover more meaning, so that it is necessary for researchers extensive areas, from structure and function to analyze the meaning contained in sontoloyo of language as well as the interrelationship politician in the hope of enriching linguistic with other disciplines, the scope of semantics knowledge in society. is about the meaning itself in linguistics whereas the Meaning of linguistic object RESULT AND DISCUSSION can be various. Everyone has a different way Semantic is a branch of linguistics that of analyzing linguistic meanings because there studies the meaning/meaning contained in a are no very general indicators of the nature language, code, or another type of of meaning or ways that must be explained. representation. In other words, Semantics is There are two methods of approach to learning learning about meaning. Besides that to mean in language including the first is a semantics can also be interpreted as a study linguistic approach, this pattern is related to of meaning used to understand human how to analyze meaning in structured expression through language. Other forms of language. And the second is a philosophical semantics include semantic programming approach, this method aims to analyze or

35 Dede Irawan, Semantic Analysis Of The Meaning Sontoloyo Politician In The Mr. Joko Widodo Speech ...... investigate the relationship between linguistic who show or insinuate politically involved expressions, such as words of the language, officials, party officials, party activists, people, objects, and events in the world that political experts, state experts, legislators, refer to these words. This is also confirmed executives, judiciary, and government officials by Leech (1969: 5) who explains that "The who work wrongly, work silly, and work purpose of semantics is to explain and describe stupidly who has linked everything to politics. meaning in natural language. To make the starting point in daily use more explicit and the semantic goal is to explain what underlies the meaning of related words and terms such REFERENCES as understanding, nonsense, meaning, ambiguity, antonyms, synonyms, etc. In Atkinson, R.L. dan Atkinson, R. (1994). English and other languages, it can be Pengantar Psikologi .edisi ke sebelas concluded that semantics should be able to jilid 2. Terjemahan: Widjaya Kusuma. give more explanations and define any Jakarta: Erlangga expressions in the language. Chaer, Abdul. 2009. Pengantar Semantik Bahasa Indonesia. Jakarta: Rineka CONCLUSION Cipta. In this research the writer will try to Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. 2005. analyze in the statement that is conveyed by Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. Mr. Jokowi dodo about sonotoloyo politician, Jakarta: Balai Pustaka actually indiction of sontoloyo politician, Leech, Geoffery diterjemahkan oleh there are two words in phrase at the first Pratana. 2003. Semantik. Yogyakarta: sontoloyo and second politician, Depend on Pustaka Pelajar. Merriam Webster a person experienced in the Mansoer petada. 2001. Semantik leksikal. art or science of government especially : one Jakarta: Ribeka cipta actively engaged in conducting the business Verhaar, J.W.M. 2010. Asas-asas Linguistik of a government while in the Oxford Umum. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada dictionary explain that politician is A person University Press. Who is Professionally Involved in Politics, Stiawan, Yasin. Perkembangan Bahasa especially as a holder of an elected office. diposting dari situs www.siaksoft.com. Sontoloyo is taken from ancient java language Di unduh pada 1 April 2019 of Indonesia, this word usually is used to Rachmah, Khoirur, 2012. “Analisis Morfo- chaff people who ridiculous deeds, generally Semantis Isitilah-Istilah dalam Proses sontoloyo that is used to insinuate people who Upacara Buka Luwur Kanjeng Sunan do bad deeds and harm others, it can be Kudus di Kabupaten Kudus” Skripsi. concluded that sontoloyo politician is the Yogyakarta: Fakultas I lmu Budaya people who have political positions, political Universitas Gadjah Mada. experts, and expert statesmen as like Blaxter, L., Hughes, C; and Thight, M. legislative, executive and judicial positions (2006) How to research: Seluk-beluk who have wrong behavior in carrying out melakukan Research, Jakarta: their duties. Beside that the statement has use Gramedia. connotative meaning, because in this statement Grbich, Carol (2007) Qualitative data analysis: has a communicative value and an expression An intriduction, London: Sage has by the virtue of what it refers to over and Publication above its purely conceptual content and it https://www.linguistikid.com/2018/10 includes not only physical characteristic, but /siapakah-politikus-sontoloyo-dari- also social properties and psychological, such sudut-linguistik.html di unduh pada 30 as is described in diction of sontoloyo Maret 2019. politician in the case of sontoloyo politicians

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