THE REGISTER OF BROADCAST TALK AT NEWS DIVISION IN KOMPAS TV SURABAYA

This paper sets out to analyze the register of broadcast talk at news division in Kompas TV Surabaya. The register is the use of a language variety which can be found in a situation where a social group uses certain language in communication. In this thesis, the writer used the theory of register by Janet Holmes and supported by Wardhaugh. The data was collected, analyzed, categorized and described in the form of words rather than in the numerical or procedures. The writer collected the data by recording the conversation happen among the broadcasters in news division’s at Kompas TV Surabaya. Next, the data were audio, audiovisually, and it were analyzed by identifying, categorizing and classifying the register features in broadcast talk at news division in Kompas TV Surabaya. The analysis and discussion of this study pointed two key findings. First, news division’s broadcasters in Kompas TV Surabaya creates register for their daily communication. Second, the features of register can be identified through the theory from Holmes, and Wardhaugh theory in sociolinguistics phenomenon especially register, and supported by the analysis of syntactic structure of the description uses from Radford’s theory which discusses the structure of sentences. From the finding obtained, the broadcasters suit the rapid changing moments which have to be informed to the audiences by using particular vocabulary, and particular syntactic patterns. It tends to be an attempt in delivering the information in a limited time provided. Here, the context has an important role to define what exactly happens in an ongoing moment of the broadcasting activities.