Perkembangan Kosakata dalam Bidang Sastra: Telaah Kosakata pada Novel Angkatan Balai Pustaka “Katak Hendak Jadi Lembu” Karya Nur Sutan Iskandar

Abstract

A number of historical facts reveal that since the seventh century Malay language has a function as an intermediate language (lingua franca), language culture, the language of commerce, and the official language. Yet, now, the Malay language has turned into the Indonesian language has advanced rapidly in term of increasing vocabulary. Not only on the vocabulary development, but also in the structure, due to the influence of internal (local language) and external influences (foreign language). For the field of literature itself, literature produced by writers of his day had any effect on the use of vocabulary, such as the one in the novel Katak Hendak Jadi Lembu written by Nur Sutan Iskandar. As one of the novel present and represents his era around the 30's, precisely in 1935, this novel also provides an overview of the use of vocabulary in the Indonesian language at the time. The description there shows how developments of Indonesian vocabulary is very dynamic. Some vocabularies used in the novel are still used by the user of the Indonesian language at this time.

Keywords: vocabulary, novels, development