Abstract :
In order to be able to satisfy human needs to get acknowledgment, gain information,
and define a sense of self and social identity, joining the group is one of the answers.
People as social creatures need language to interact. Language is used to
communicate with each other. In this case it can be said simply the language and
environment are related. The existence of languages creates language varieties. One
of the varieties of language is Jargon. Jargon is a language and vocabulary that is
peculiar to certain people in a trade, profession, or another group. The focuses of this
study is on observing the changing of the meaning of the jargon in Jokowi?s speech at
the World Economic Forum.
This study has two objectives. The first is to identify the Jargon in Jokowi Speeches
at the World Economic Forum. The second is to reveal the meaning of jargon that
undergone the semantic change found in Jokowi's speeches. In conducting this
research, the researcher applied qualitative method. However, the approach of this
research is semantic. In this study the researcher also applied theory of jargon by
Halligan?s and Chaika?s to find out the form of jargon, theory of meaning by Leech?s
and the last the researcher applied theory of semantic change by Ullmann?s theory.
There are 47 data identified as jargon. From those 47 lexical items, there is 1 Jargon
that experienced semantic change which is "avengers" this jargon include in the kind
of ?word? of jargon. Only 1 categorization that suit with the theory of Ullmann?s which
is narrowing.
Key Words: Language Variations, Sematic Change, Semantic Approach,
Qualitative Method