TYPES OF LANGUAGE STYLES USED BY INDONESIAN FOOTBALL REPORTERS IN THE FINAL MATCH OF THE ISL (INDONESIA SUPER LEAGUE) 2014

Abstract

The formulation of the problem in this study are: 1) what types of language styles are used by football reporters in the 2014 ISL final match between PERSIB Bandung and PERSIPURA Jayapura; 2) what language styles are most dominantly used by football reporters in the 2014 ISL final match between PERSIB Bandung and PERSIPURA Jayapura? The method used in this study is descriptive analysis. The conclusion of this study is 1) 62 utterances of language styles were found delivered by reporter Hadi Ahay Gunawan consisting of 2 similes, 21 metaphors, 2 personifications, 1 antithesis, 3 pleonasms, 1 correction, 4 hyperboles, 1 irony, 4 inuendos, 1 hypalase, 1 synecdoche, 4 ellipsis, 1 eponym, 1 antonomasia, 10 erotesis, 3 epizeukis, 1 anaphora, and 1 epanalepsis. And 35 utterances containing language styles delivered by reporter Titis Sudjiatmoko consist of 1 simile language style, 5 metaphor language styles, 1 personification language style, 1 antithesis language style, 1 anticipation language style, 1 correction language style, 2 hyperbole language styles, 1 litotes language style, 1 inuendo language style, 5 climax language styles, 1 antonomasia language style, 3 erotesis language styles, 4 asyndeton language styles, 2 alliteration language styles, 4 anaphora language styles, and 1 epistrofa language style. 2) The most dominant language style used by football reporter Hadi Ahay Gunawan in the 2014 ISL final football match between PERSIB Bandung and PERSIPURA Jayapura is the Metaphor language style, which is 30%. And the most dominant language style used by football reporter Titis Sudjiatmoko in the 2014 ISL final football match between PERSIB Bandung and PERSIPURA Jayapura is the metaphorical language style and the climax language style, both of which have the same percentage, namely 14%.