The Styles Of Khutbah Discourse (A Stylistics Study)

Abstract

The use of language style in everyday interactions occupies a strategic position especially in the formation of an interesting, quality, and meaningful discourse. One of them is the use of language style in khutbah discourse published in the mass media. The formulation of the problem in this research is how the use of language style found in the discourse of the khutbah based on the study of stylistics?To answer the research questions, conducted this research stage using stylistic approach of khutbah discourse published in the Rindang magazine, ReligiousAffairs offices in Central Java. The data used in this study is in the form of fragments of discourse that allegedly contains certain language styles.The results and findings obtained in this study are the types of language styles found in the Rindang magazine especially in khutbah discourse which are types of language styles based on sentence structure including climax, anticlimax, parallelism, antithesis, and repetition. Language style is based directly on whether or not the meaning found in the discourse of the khutbah is rhetorical style, asindeton, euphemism, pleonasm, and paradox.

Keywords: khutbah discourse , language style, stylistics.