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LUBUKLINGGAU
A RESEARCH PROPOSAL BY
ERO MADONSYAH
(STKIP-PGRI) LUBUKLINGGAU
2018
LANGUAGE ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOOD: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC
STUDY BETWEEN EDUCATED AND UNEDUCATED SOCIETY IN
LUBUKLINGGAU
BY
ERO MADONSYAH
Approved by:
Advisor I, Advisor II
range of goods and services to meet all needs of human beings, whether for
physical or spiritual needs such as eating, drinking, education, healthy, and others.
Eating is one of basic human needs. In meet those needs, someone chooses the
appropriate food with his taste. The factors that influence attitude someone in the
Food is more than a nutrient. We experience food through all five senses,
smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight (Szatrowski, 2014, P. 5). They need food to
provides nutrients, whoever they are, from where its origin, in good health,
illness, old and young. Therefore, food is a basic need that must be
fulfilled.Kittler, Sucher, and Nelms (2012) coined the term food habits (also
known as food culture or food ways) to describe the manner in which humans use
food, including everything from how it is chosen, acquired, and distributed to who
prepares, serves, and eats it. In general, the preferred food is that meets taste or
taste, i.e. in terms of appearance, colour, smell, taste, temperature, and texture.
Food is important for humans in dealing with other humans. In the family, the
food, culture, and society from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences (Almerico, 2014).It is also important for the formation of
identity and culture, and intricately involved in the way we use language.
also about who we want to be, and how we wish to be seen by others (Douglas,
2009, P. 11). Identity is also the whole or totality that indicated the characteristic
Culture is not inherited; it is learned (Almerico, 2014). Culture can also be said to
be a way of life that is developed and shared by a group of people and passed
down from generation to generation. Identity and culture relate to one another. It
culture possessed by a group of people who are known to their limits when
We learn language and the tastes, textures, smells, visual features, and
(Szatrowski, 2014, P. 3). Language and food are important as part of our
identities. Language and food coincide daily and on repeated occasions; no other
overlooked due to its habitual nature. It is important to note that the contributors
do not treat food or language as an object, but rather as part of a social activity
clear that no everyone can receive the level of education they have right to. This
leads to divide people into two groups, educated and uneducated people. Both of
these types of people have their advantages and disadvantages which can be
that produces good mental ability and functions effectively in his personal life and
and the ability to learn independently to think, digest, criticize, and build a
thing that usually comes to mind is: what is the taste of the food?. To find out the
On the other hand, uneducated people who have not complete their
well-paid job unless they are very lucky. For this reason they have to work in
simple jobs or perform very hard labour work in construction or fields increasing
the risk of illness and relative poor healthy. Unlike educated people who earn
more over lifetime which means a higher quality of life, uneducated people do not
have enough income to make ends meet for their families pushing them deeper
but due to not achieving any level of education which is a basic human right they
Educated people are open minded and uneducated people are closed
minded. When a person has gained high quality of education they most certainly
have an advantage or greater knowledge about the world and other people.
Uneducated people tend to follow the same paths and practices of their parents
and what they experienced in their life and going forward the same mentality is
passed onto their children who do not realise the importance of education through
no fault of their own. People living in different education will have different
(Bolagun, 2008). In fact, the view that education is the key that unlocks the door
believes in the axiom of education per excellence. That is, Lubuklinggau city
share the vision of education as a pivot for social change and integrated
Nowdays, Lubuklinggau already has place to eat like, café, restaurant and
traditional food houses that sells various types of food that vary. There are many
kinds of a place to eat from low to the high class in lubuklinggau. Ussualy, the
high class of place to eat, they use foreign languages, like as Englishor combine
Indonesian language and others language. On the other hand, the low class of a
place to eat, they usually use a unique name for the food for example, seblak
astagfirullah, bakso jawirand others. Educated and uneducated society have its
own distinct and diverse attitude toward the entry of foreign culture and language.
Based on the description above, the writer will conduct the research in
Lubuklinggau?
2. How is the language attitude of uneducated society towards food in
Lubuklinggau?
Lubuklinggau.
Lubuklinggau.
The study may give the students understanding about the language attitude
The study is a very significant and useful, it will give some valuable
experiences and it can be used for the preparation of the writer as a candidate
of teacher.
This study provides reference and contribution for other researchers who
F. Operational Definition
term.
a. Language Attitude
Language attitude are the feelings people have about their own
b. Food
provides nutrients that human need, whoever they are, from where its
origin, in good health, illness, old and young. Therefore, food is a basic
c. Sociolinguistics
e. Uneducated
source.
f. Lubuklinggau
CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
senses, smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight (Szatrowski, 2014, P. 5). It is
also important for the formation of identity and culture, and intricately
that tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are, suggests the
preferences.
B. Language Attitude
begins with a decision between two competing theories about the nature of
138, Cooper and Fishman 1974: 7). A person's attitude, in this view,
prepares her to react to a given stimulus in one way rather than in another.
type and which may mediate the organism's subsequent response.' This
depend on the person's reports of what their attitudes are, or infer attitudes
attitudes are distinguished from other attitudes by the fact that they are
and used. Negative attitude are attitudes that endanger the existence of the
language itself. If the speakers not proud of their language, this will be a
a positive attitude, a language will get more appreciation for its users. The
clear that no everyone can receive the level of education they have right to.
This leads to divide people into two groups, educated and uneducated
379) stark conclusions about the educated person: the ideal that liberal
education brings about in the understanding of the educated person and the
ability to learn, and the ability to use language. Mohanan believes that
these four ingredients are the core to the educated person because an
educated person must have knowledge, can think, can learn and is able to
the term ‘educated person’. In the first sense, an ‘educated person must
note that is implies that the learning is not what qualifies the person as
closed minded. When a person has gained high quality of education they
and other people. Uneducated people tend to follow the same paths and
practices of their parents and what they experienced in their life and going
forward the same mentality is passed onto their children who do not realise
kinds of food, because education is very identic toward food. The first
thing that comes up for discussion is level income. There is doubt that
of the time and as they have more opportunities to have a good job, they
have a better income and consume better food which leads to a longer
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22’ 30” Latitude South (LS). Based on Law no. 7 of 2001 C is 401, 50
km2 or 40, 150 ha and is at an altitude of 129 meters above sea level. The
Collanguage (Shak, 2016). While the use of Col language itself has
influence of outside culture that comes from the media such as internet and
A. Research Design
to be undertaken.
technique.
interview, ethnographic interview is done after the researcher has closeness with
the informant. This is of course more profitable because researchers will be more
familiar with the informant's social world more (Levon, 2013: 76).
is a method used to obtain the data by performing a denial of the use of language.
a. Tapping Technique
researcher with all his ingenuity, shrewdness, and expertise to get the data
listening the dialogue that takes place between the informants (Mahsun,
2012: 93).
d. Note Technique
After the data have been collected, the writer will analyze them. In
analyzing the data, there are some steps or procedures that will be used by
1. Identification
After collecting the data, the writer will find the language attitude
toward food, the researcher will identification the educated and uneducated
society in Lubuklinggau..
2. Classification
3. Reduction
not show the language attitude toward food by Educated and uneducated
society in Lubuklinggau.
4. Description
The researcher will describe the data that consist of educated and
5. Conclusion
of Lubuklinggau society.