UJARAN FATIS UNTUK MENANGGAPI SUARA-SUARA DAN KEJADIAN TERTENTU DALAM BAHASA MINANGKABAU DIALEK AGAM (Linguistic Routines Responding to Some Voices and Happenings in Minangkabau Language With Agam’s Dialect)

Abstract

This research aims at describing some phatic communion responding to some voices and happenings in Minangkabau language with Agam’s dialect. Data are taken by interviewing, recording, and writing note.The theory proposed by Saville-Troike (2003:37) about linguistic routines ase used in this research. The result of the research shows that there are eight voices and fifteen happenings in Minangkabau language which are responded with phatic utterance. The result of the research also shows that some smiliar expressions are used for some different happenings, for example the phatic utterance which means ‘someone is talking about you’ used for sneeze and hiccough,’someone will visit us’ used for unintentionally taking the same thing, butterflies entering a house, and winking on the right eye. The utterance means ‘you will grow up’ is used for children who is hiccup and children who is dropped.