dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses about the ethnography of communication as part of the study macrolinguistic
or interdisciplinary linguistic studies. The Ethnography of communication studies is one of the
qualitative research approach that is a natural paradigm, interpretive, and produces descriptive
daten that specializes in the discovery of various patterns of communication used by humans in a
speech community. So, ethnography of communication is the sociolinguistic approaches to browse
for the use of language in general, that is associated with social values and cultural. He is a branch
of linguistic anthropology specifically to understand the culture behind the context of the
communication that occurs in the speech community. The description purpose of ethnography is to
provide a global understanding about the views and values of a society as a way to explain the
attitudes and behavior of its members is reflected in the pattern of communication. The scope of
ethnographic of communication studies, namely: the patterns and function of communication; The
nature and definition of speech community; means of communication; The components of
communicative competence; The relationship of language to the world view and social
organization; linguistic and social universals and linqualities. | en_US |