Acculturation of English Greeting Patterns to Bugis Speech Community in Ajatappareng Region, Indonesia

Abstract

This study was conducted to know whether or not the acculturation of English greeting patterns influences the Bugis speech community in producing greetings in Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare. The use of greetings in the Bugis speech community daily life would like to be proven to increase the knowledge about the acculturation of English greetings patterns. The researcher used survey research by using questionnaires as a research instrument. The sample of this research consisted of 67 students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare fromthe Bugis speech community that lives in the Ajatappareng region in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The result shows that the acculturation of greetings among the Bugis speech community through the use of the English/Indonesian/local greetings is not happening. The tabulated charts of each question and topic given to the respondents showed a sign of consistency of how infrequently the respondents used any kind of time bound greetings whether it is Indonesian or English greetings. Moreover, the collected information indicates that the use of English greetings is only customized for people who occur to come from English-speaking environments. Certainly, the results fromthis study cannot be taken to represent Buginese and Indonesian people as a whole, but the results themselves gave a picture of howboth English and Indonesian greetings used among the Indonesian respondents look the same on the provided data. The notable result would be about how the utilization of greetings can be shown on different occasions