Redefining Cablaka "Banyumasan Way of Speaking": Is It Totally Explicature?

Abstract

—Banyumasan is a dialect of Javanese language. It is mainly spoken along the flow of Serayu river. Language as it is used in a speech community can reflect the community itself and so does Banyumasan. Banyumasan which has different linguistic feature compared to its standard Javanese also reflects the way of speaking of its speaker. The way of speaking in Banyumas is commonly known as Cablaka. Cablaka is Banyumasan way of speaking which means that a speaker tend to speak frankly based on the actual fact. However the phenomena shows us different thing. People, sometimes inevitably speak indirectly. Speakers express their thought to their hearers implicitly. What is meant without being said is generally called implicature. On the other hand, explicature happens when what is meant is as what is said. This article intends to redefine the concept of Cablaka as Banyumas way of speaking in the context of traditional selling and buying in Banyumasan. The implicatures found in selling and buying transaction are disagreeing, promising, commanding, requesting, accusing, keeping a secret and forbidding. The functions of implicatures in selling and buying transaction are to show politeness, to show respect, to show carefulness, to show uncertainty, and to keep face.