THE ANALYSIS OF VERNACULAR LANGUAGE BY THE CHARACTERS IN HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Sakthi, Febriansyah. 2019. The Analysis of Vernacular Language by The
Characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Final Project, English
Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Senowarsito, M.Pd.
Advisor II: Indri Kustantinah, S.S., M.Hum
Keywords: Vernacular, To Kill a Mockingbird
This study focused on finding the vernacular used by the character in the
novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The objective of this study are
(1) To find out the vernacular used by the character in the novel To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee, (2) To find out the meaning of the vernacular
used by the character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, (3)
To find out the contribution of vernacular to the study of Sociolinguistics.
This study used qualitative descriptive as the research design. The results of
data finding were divided into two sub-numbers which were vernacular
based on phonology feature which taken from the audiobook version of To
Kill a Mockingbird and vernacular based on grammatical feature which use
the written version of the novel. In phonology features, there are three
vernaculars found based on its phonological patterns such as ―-in‘‖ ending,
―-d‖ dropping, and pronunciation construction. In grammatical features,
there are three vernaculars found based on its lexical and grammatically
patterns such as pronominal “y’all”, modal auxiliary combinations such as
might could, and inchoative “fixin’ to” as “about to”. The contribution of
vernacular found in this study are expected to the Sociolinguistics class.
Therefore finally, the benefit of this study are (1) Students able to get and
enrich their vocabularies by discovering the vernaculars found in this study,
(2) Students get more example in vernacular of SAE (South-American
English) in To Kill a Mockingbird which tends to have humorous and
sarcastic conversation, (3) Students can get referential data and meaning to
broaden their knowledge in vernacular or when they want to do the same
research in vernacular language.