Utilitas Bahasa dalam Mengkonstruksi Hegemoni Kekuasaan pada Novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk: Perspektif Antropologi Linguistik

This study aimed at (1) explaining the author hegemonic power expressed in the literary texts by signifier system, (2) explaining the hegemonic power shown in the literary texts as a humanity representation, and (3) finding the basic concept to explain in the language, the system of power and culture in linguistic anthropology perspective. This research used descriptive qualitative method in order to explain that the language utility in linguistic anthropology perspective could formulate and reconstruct hegemonic powers shown in Ahmad Tohari’s novels entitled Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk. The research data included primary and secondary data. The primary data were in the form of literary texts (novels). While secondary data included: (1) various references or journals related to the research problems, (2) a variety of important information obtained from the author, cultural observersand readers are reffered from internet. The data collection was done by library research for in-depth understanding on the meanings. The Data analysis techniques required reading for meaning in a semiotic reading of heuristic and hermeneutic reading. The results showed that (1) hegemonic power shown by the author through signifier system could be considered in the use of signs / symbols that led to the meaning of power in linguistic categories associated with the community culture shown in the texts, (2) the hegemony of power indicated in the texts as humanity representation that sometimes, for certain interests, language could be used as a mean of justification to human behavior, (3) the language used in the text could not be separated from the public culture in giving meaning of power. Representation of power was clearly reflected in the use of markers to discuss and interpret the language that referred to the social reality