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INTRODUCTION
One of the human basic needs is food. Food is more than a nutrient. Food plays
a vital role in our daily life because without food we cannot survive (Ayeonomi, 2011).
Human 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) examined 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. “Food is culture” is the expression used by Montanari (2006) which
indicate food is part of culture. Food is culture because it has broader meaning than just
a source of nutrition but food associated with custom, status, prestige, solidarity and
serenity.
Montanari (2006) stated food is culture when it created even shown because
human uses various natural combination and unusual process to make the food.
“When someone thinks of or mentions food, the first thing that usually comes to
mind is: where does it come from, who does make it, how does it taste, and what
is the story behind it? Giving answers to these questions, people usually refer to
the cultural context. The term of culture refers to the set of values, knowledge,
language, rituals, habits, lifestyles, attitudes, beliefs, folklore, rules and customs
Ma (2015) addressed food is not only indicate the social status, but also can be
used as a character of one group, divided by regions, families, races or religions. For
instance, Ayu (2016) believed, in many Javanese dishes raw vegetables are still widely
used, for example urap, lalapan and karedok. On the other hand, the typical of culinary
of Sumatra, the cuisine of vegetables are not many in number. Almost of the culinary of
Sumatera is made from meat. It means different cultures and regions have different food
and habits that are hereditary in that area (Jurafsky, 2014). Therefore, each region or
country have difference tradition in cooking. For example, pasta for Italian like rice for
Indonesian. Pasta becomes one of the main source of carbohydrates for Italian, this food
complete with sauces. Another example, tomato, basil and mozzarella cheese on a pizza
signify a taste of Italy. It indicates that food can be identified as a particular group of
people.
The name of food and different culture above are not something new for
Indonesian people. The entry of foreign culture can also be seen from the competition of
the culinary world in Indonesia between local and foreign food. For example,
McDonald’s, Burger King and Hoka Hoka Bento which compete with domestic food.
Society will have varry attitude about the mixing culture, language and food, especially
urban and suburban society. Even more, related to the language used.
Generally, urban society is a society that is typical of modern industrial
civilization and heterogeneous in cultural tradition, the emphasizes secular values and
that is individualized rather than integrated. In urban areas there is difference in dress,
language and customs because there are a variety of people having different
backgrounds (Farooq, 2012). Urban society has glamour and luxury lifestyle. They are
very luxuriously in living, clothing, things and also food. Society of urban likes fast
food or instant food because of their activity and there is no time to cook. Unlike
suburban society who living in the suburb, but they make living in big city areas
(Kristin, 2008). Suburban society is simpler than urban society in living, clothing,
The analysis concerning the research has also been discussed in the prior
research. Those are the first one who has been alanlyzed by Arifin (2017) entitled
”Language Attitude and Word Formation of Food Menu Names in The Food Court of
stands. From those places there are 38 data for language attitude analyzed into positive
and negative language attitude. The second one who has been investigated by Jurafsky
(2014) found the differences in the name of the food menu between low to high class of
restaurant, which the cheaper of the restaurant using complex name of food. On the
other hand, more expensive of the restaurant using elegant name for the food, which
indicated high social status. It means, food can be used by someone or group of people
The phenomenon also influences the attitude of native speakers toward food. In
The globalization era in nowadays designates that there are huge influences of
languages and cultures from one country to another. The influence of another language
such as English also takes a part of the entry of globalization in Indonesia. One of them
spoken and especially in like the restaurant names until the names of food. Therefore,
based on the emergence of those problems, then the writer is interested in analyzing the
Based on the description above, the writer will conduct the research about the
Based on the background above, the writer formulates the problems by making
3. How are difference attitude towards the food between urban and suburban area of
Lubuklinggau society?
C. Objectives of the Research
3. To describe the difference attitude towards the food between urban and suburb area
of Lubuklinggau society.
The writer will focus in analyzing the attitude towards food based on the
The study can help the students in sociolinguistics class especially in analyzing
The study will give information and provide additional knowledge about
language attitude which can be used by the lecturers in teaching language attitude in
sociolinguistics class.
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 are
F. Operational Definitions
This research has several definition key term. They are language, language
attitude, food, sociolinguistics, urban and suburban and Lubuklinggau as the following:
1. Language
Language is the key of human life in this world, because of language people can
interact with each other and language plays important role in social life. People can
2. Language Attitude
reaction to the existence of the phenomenon against the use of language by speaker the
language.
3. Food
Food is basic human need that is needed at all times. It requires a good and
proper management to be beneficial to the human body. Food provides nutrients that
human need, whoever they are, from where its origin, in good health, illness, old and
4. Sociolinguistics
object of its study with the social fabric of society. Because the nature of the language is
unique and varied, each region has its own language and diverse. In social environment,
individuals and community have their own characteristics in conveying their language.
5. Urban Society
Urban society is the society who living in urban area that metropolises
6. Suburban Society
Suburban society is people who own home and live in the suburbs but they make
7. Lubuklinggau
LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Language Attitude
Language attitude is frequently found in the region which has various language
inside it. As proposed by Richard & Schmidt (2010: 314) that language attitude is the
attitude of the language users toward their various language and another language.
perceptions of a language’s vitality and with language practices, and thus with language
expressed attitudes and actions. Therefore, based on those statements, language attitude
is generally the reaction of the language users in using their own language and another,
because in the study of language attitude which connect to the various language
emphasizes to use one language and not another in the bilingualisms or multilingualism
probably long-term belief or cognition about language and an object of language which
give a preference of society to react in a certain way that they like”. According to him,
there are various languages in the study of language attitude give the tendency of
language users to use one of the various languages that they prefer. Where their reaction
According to Garvin and Mathiot (in Chaer, 2010: 152) there are three features
The attitude of language loyalty defines that there is the desire of the community
to maintain its language and prevent the influence of other languages (Garvin and
Mathiot in Chaer, 2010: 152). The loyalty of language is the primarily encourage the
efforts to maintain the language because the language loyalty has a strong emotional
root in the mother tongue which has been applied since childhood.
The pride attitude of language encourage people to develop their language and
use it as a symbol of identity and community (Garvin and Mathiot in Chaer, 2010: 152).
Therefore, the pride of language is seen when somebody show their language identity
rather than use another language which has not their own.
The awareness of the norm attitude encourage people to use the language
carefully and courteously (Garvin and Mathiot in Chaer, 2010: 152). Based on those all
characteristics, if the third features are owned by the society’s means they have the
Negative language attitude is the inverse of positive language attitude, where the
third characteristics of positive attitude has been starting disappear and weaken is the
sign of negative attitude. Then the characteristics in negative sector proposed by Garvin
case is the feature that the loyalty of language starts weakening and if it is ongoing
b. There is no pride of their language and divert their pride of language to another
c. There is no awareness of the norm of language toward their own language. Where in
this phase, there is no more encouragement to treat the good manners in the
language.
another. Each group in the society has an identity which distinguishes them from
other groups. That is, the people’s way of life, set of beliefs and customs. One
aspect of other cultural heritage or tradition is the type of food and plants they cultivate
According to Ayeomoni,
“The relationship among language, food and culture in a society is
individual groups in the society are identified with their socio-cultural and socio-
culture and culture is the idea, customs and belief of a social group or
from others. So, language is part of culture, and it plays a vital role in the society
as it reflects culture”.
part of culture and culture is part of language. The two are interwoven; therefore,
one cannot separate the two without losing the importance of both language and
culture.
According to Nabhan (2013), there are many ways of defining ethnicity, one
way is by language, and some 6,500 different languages remain spoken on this planet by
humans (although that number may be halved by the end of this century). Each of these
language groups has a different way of speaking about food, of collecting and preparing
it, and a different vocabulary to describe its cultural identity in relation to the foods it
A language indexes its culture: The language that exists with its culture
from the onset will best express that culture. The vocabularies and idioms are the
ones that best explain the emotive and cognitive level of that culture. On the
other hand, the food we eat can also denote the identity of a particular culture.
meet their daily needs. This could be through agricultural practices and industries that
provide the group with their basic needs and give them a chance of survival.
Agriculture itself deals with the food we consume. Customs are created through
According Ma (2015) Food is not only indicate the social status, but also can be
used as a character of one group, divided by regions, families, races or religions. Each
country has their own State Banquet. Some countries such as China, France, and Italy
are famous for their cuisine, delicious food, and food culture.
Stajcic stated,
consume, how we acquire it, who prepares it, who’s at the table, and who eats
nourishing the body, what we eat and with whom we eat can inspire and
There is no closer relationship than the one with the family, and food plays a
large part in defining family roles, rules, and traditions. It helps us to discover
attitudes, practices, and rituals surrounding food, it sheds light on our most basic
shown because human uses various natural combination and unusual process to make
the food. Understanding a culture through food is an interesting process because once a
person starts asking these questions, such as how something is made, what ingredients
are in it, or why it is called a certain way, the answers obtained go beyond culinary
learning. In these answers, food tells us something about a culture’s approach to life.
Food is also associated with language attitude. For example, Korean and
Japanese food are popular. When someone eat the food from those countries, it will
make someone has high prestige than they eat local food likes cassava. Cassava is
typical of Indonesian food but has low prestige for Indonesian than foreign food from
Japanese and American courses. In many cases, a loanword was used to refer to
the foreign food despite the existence of a native word in Wolof and Eegimaa to
evaluation strategy for participants to distance themselves from the foreign food
The desciption above indicated food is not only something that needs to be
fulfiled but also can identify who and how the status of people in society.
F. Urban and Suburban Society
1. Urban Society
1. Urban society is thickly populated because many people comes from rural
2. This society has homogeneity in profession, it means that there are many
3. In urban areas there is difference in dress, language and customs because there
4. Have got fast means of communication that is they gets aware of what is
5. The areas have got fast rate of change because of education and modern
technology.
6. These areas have got complex culture because of mixing of other culture in it.
8. Urban areas have got weak interactions and ties on the basis of their complex.
automobiles.
10. In urban area people are not much gracious to their guest because of their
busy life.
2. Suburban Society
Suburban society is people who own home and live in the suburbs but they make
with shoping malls and strips, as well as office buildings. Suburbs often sprawl,
making a spread over the area they occupy as opposed to creating prominent
beingcookie-cutter and are, in professional terms, for the most part, tract
housing”.
However, urban areas have larger population and area than suburban. These two
living are very different from other such as their lifestyle, building, and things.
3. Urban and Suburban Society in Lubuklinggau
into some urban and suburban areas. According regulation head of the statistics center
number 37 year 2010, urban areas of Lubuklinggau are Tanjung Aman, Lubuk Aman,
Pasar Permiri, Tapak Lebar, Maja Pahit Marga Mulya, Taba Jemekeh, Taba Pingin,
Cereme Taba, Batu Urip Taba, Watervang, Moneng Sepati, Talang Rejo, Talang
Bandung, Talang Jawa, Eka Marga and others. Suburban areas of Lubuklinggau are
Tanah Periuk, Simpang Periuk, Petanang, Karang Ketuan, Siring Agung, Marga Bakti,
H. Lubuklinggau
between 102◦ 40’ 00” - 103◦ 0’00” East Longitude (B) and 3◦ 4’10” - 3◦ 22’ 30”
Latitude South (LS). Lubuklinggau is expansion city of Musirawas regency which was
located between 102◦ 40’ 00” - 103◦ 0’00” East Longitude (B) and 3◦ 4’10” - 3◦ 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 region consist eight sub-district
(lubuklinggaukota.bps.go.id)
economic, and cultural interests. It means that the city consists of various tribal
used every day in Lubuklinggau. Sindang language or known as "Col" is used as the
traditional ceremony. Along with the occurrence of cultural acculturation, the language
"Col" itself becomes weakened. The government efforts to maintain the "Col" language.
(Palembang.tribunnews.com).
Research on language and food has conducted by some linguists, one of them
“Language Attitude and Word Formation of Food Menu Names in The Food Court of
conducted by Arifin (2017) and the research will conduct the writer are subject of the
study about language and food. However, the differences between the research
conducted by Arifin and the writer’s research are as follows: first, Arifin’s research
examined the food menu names in the food court of parahyangan apartment as subject
and the writer will do the research with different subject such as urban and suburban
and word formation from the food menu names, while the writer’s research will only
Based on the prior research, there are the similarities and differences with the
research. Therefore, the writer will do the research which has not been investigated in
the prior. Finally, the writer will conduct the research about the phenomenon of the
RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
According to Creswell (2014) research design are plans and the procedures for
research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data
collections and analysis. In this research, the writer will use descriptive qualitative
general themes, and the researcher making interpretation of the meaning of the
data”.
The qualitative research design is temporary as the initial guide to step into the
field; not rigid and strictly structured. Because the research is temporary and loose, the
possibilities are revised or modified depending on what is actually found in the field
was taken from the phenomenon of human about the study of language in the society.
Therefore, through this qualitative method depicts the process of this research to
discover the answers of research questions, in the terms of language attitude between
This research will discuss and analyze the language that can show their language
attitudes toward food in Lubuklinggau. The data will collect with several sociolinguistic
1. The writer will read and identify the theoretic about language, identity, and attitude
that relevant.
2. Next, the writer will classify the society in Lubuklinggau based on area (urban and
suburban).
3. Then, the writer will collect the data through Involved Conversation Observation
4. After the data are collected, the writer will analyze and interpret the data.
In this research, the data sources will be divided into two parts of data: primary
and secondary data. According to Hox and Boeije (2005: 593), Primary data are that are
collected for the specific research problem at hand, using procedures that fit research
problem best. On every occasion that primary data are collected, new data are added to
the existing store of social knowledge. Increasingly, this material created by other
researchers is made available for reuse by the general research community; it is then
The primary data are taken from the informant through recording. The
informants will be selected through social network model by Milroy & Milroy (in
Milroy, 2003). Then, secondary data as supporting data are taken from several
sociolinguistics books and journals relate of language and identity, language and food,
language and attitude, articles related of language, identity and attitude, and then some
The data collection in qualitative research, the writer is key instrument where the
or interviewing participants. They may use a protocol-an instrument for collecting data-
but the researchers are the ones who actually gather the information (Creswell, 2009:
175). Then he also clarifies “in many qualitative studies, inquirers collect multiple
forms of data in which the collection procedures in qualitative research involve four
basic types. Those are observations, interviews, documents, and audio-visual materials”
only one who collect data as the key instrument. Collecting the data must be paid
attention more to support the successful research. For this reason, the writer must use a
method to collect the data because method of data collection is an action of the
Observation method is a method to get the data which is the writer observes and listen
the language usage (Mahsun, 2012: 92). In observation method, the researcher uses
a. Observation (simak)
Observation (simak) means that the researcher listens, observe, and watch the
b. Involved (libat)
Involved (libat) means the writer involves himself in taking data such as
c. Conversation (cakap)
speaking.
while listening, participate in the conversation, and listen to the conversation. In this
case, the researcher is directly involved in the dialogue to get the data (Mahsun, 2012:
93).
2. Recording Technique
the writer uses recording technique to get data. In recording the data, the writer uses
tape recorder and handphone. In the process of recording, the writer must be able to
hide the recorder equipment that is for keeping the original of data. The process of
recording is done together with give some questions for informant. The questions must
3. Writing Technique
Those techniques are combined with Teknik Catat (Writing Technique).“ Teknik
Catat” is the continuation technique which applies the observation method. This
technique is done by writing some relevant data ftom the informant (Mashun, 2010).
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 the writer, they are as
follows:
1. Identification
Identification is the first step to identify the language that can show their
2. Classification
The data that had been identified will be classified based on the urban and
3. Reduction
The writer reduces the data unnecessary in this study like the language that do
not show their language attitude. The data reduction is important to do, because the
writer only looks the necessary data and make easier in analyzing the data.
4. Description
Then, the data will describe through table that consist of urban and suburban
society and how are the society of urban and suburban used language to show their
5. Conclusion
The last step for analyzing the data is giving conclusion. The write will
summarize how are urban and suburban society used languages to show their language