LANGUAGE ACCULTURATION IN COMMUNITY INTERACTION IN PALEMBANG'S KAPITAN VILLAGE

Abstract

Acculturation is a process of accepting a new culture without leaving the old culture or original culture in the area. Language is a communication tool used in daily life. Language acculturation is a process of cultural or linguistic encounters between members of two language communities, characterized by bilingualism. The purpose of this research is to find out the language acculturation used by the community in communicating dominated by Indonesian, Hokkien language, and Palembang language. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The results of this study show that the process of language acculturation in community interaction in Kapitan Village is dominated by Palembang language in non-formal interactions and in formal interactions usually the community, especially in Kapitan Village, uses Indonesian in receiving local tourists. The use of Hokkien language is used by the community in Kapitan Village during religious activities and at weddings, the community in Kapitan Village still uses Hokkien traditions and language. So it can be concluded that the community in Kapitan Village is a bilingualism language community.