SOCIOLINGUISTIC ROUTINES IN SOCIAL INTERACTION IN BATAK TOBA LANGUAGE

This research deals with the investigation of sociolinguistic routines in social interaction in Batak Toba language. The major issues in this descriptive microlinguistic study were the application of sociolinguistic routines in aspects of social interaction where sociolinguistic routines were found. Besides, this research also found the way sociolinguistic routines in social interaction in Batak Toba language are expressed. The results show that sociolinguistic routines in social interaction in Batak Toba language are found in many aspects, they are: (1) greetings, (2) self introduction, (3) offer, (4) giving, (5) apologizing, (6) permissions, (7) invitations, (8) reply, (9) requests, (10) regrets, and (11) leave taking. As far as the research had been done, the way sociolinguistic routines in Batak Toba language are expressed by using terms of kinship such as amang, inang, tulang, nantulang, amang boru, namboru, ito, lae, hela, parumaen, amang bao, inang bao, bere, paraman, appara, etc. Sociolinguistically, there is not any fixed sociolinguistic routines for each of the routines above because they depend on some social factors, such as, terms of kinship, age, gender, and familiarity.