Lexical Variation on Students’ Daily Conversation at Campus by First Year Students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University

Abstract

This articles deals with the finding of lexical variation in campus daily communication among friends on the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar. This study adopted a qualitative case study approach. The question formulated by the writer is also registered as the problem of this study that is what lexical variation are used by the students in campus daily communication among friends on the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar and what factors do influence it. In this study, the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar are taken as the subject. So the objects are the lexical variations that are used in the students’ conversation. Data collection was done through recording the student’s daily conversation at campus. Four goups of students’ conversation were
analyzed in this research. In order to understand the student’ lexical variation, sociolinguistics factors were investigated. Finally, the findings show the dominant sociolinguistics factors that influence the students’ lexical variation is the language function which is used by the students namely informal language function.