THE FORMAL AND CASUAL LANGUAGE STYLE AS SEEN IN JOKOWIDODO’S SELECTED SPEECHS

Language has a potentiality for making communication successful and establishing social togetherness if it is used well. If not, it will be a handicap for successful communication and interaction. It derives Missikova language style is a way of speech and or a kind of utterance which is formed, it means that of conscious and intentional selection, systematic patterning and implementation of linguistic and extra linguistic means with respect to the topic, situation, function, author’s intention and content of an utterance. The writer interests language style because in using language style is important and need deep understanding to get arrangement and relationship between language and social society. In discussing language style have correlation with the social life studying it is all society. Besides the understanding language style is important especially in speech it helps the audiences to understand this speech well. The aims of this research are (1) To identify the use formal and casual language style; (2)To identify the uses of formal and casual language; (3). To identify the function language style in his speech. The writer applies the theory of language style by (2002). This research is qualitative research that focused on qualitative research by Creswell (1997). This research uses descriptive method and content analysis for collecting the data by Ratna (2011). The data are taken from the primary data, namely speech at APEC CEO, The World Economic Forum on East Asia, and The Asian-African Conference. The result of this thesis shows that (1) there are two types of language style in Joko Widodo’s speech, namely, Formal and Casual language style (2) there are three of used language style of language style in Joko Widodo’s speech, namely. International language, Standar Language and Joking language. (3) There are three function of language style in Joko Widodo’s speech, namely, increasing audience taste, persuading the reader, and creating certain mood.