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The actual closing was when the Pranatacara invited the guests to express prayer ‘Minangka panutup sumonggo sareng sesarengan hasesanti joyo-joyo wijayanti,
nirboyo lir wikara, lir dirgoyuswa, anjaying bawana As a closing for all, let us express our prayer ‘success and success, no problems on earth whatsoever’. He did not forget to
thank everyone in a phrase ‘Matur nuwun’ Thank you in the very end of his words.
4.4 Discussion on Communicative Purposes
It is important to highlight that Mr. Sudiono as the Pranatacara has performed well in his job. He has expressed clear directions for the people on duty with respect to
what to do in any activity. In signalling out that the Wedding Procession from the wedding car to the reception hall was due to commence, he said in the middle of the
description of the wedding procession, ‘sumonggo dumatheng kadhang kula wredo, roko mas Drs. Leo Agung Suhardi, kasuwun hanglenggaheken pinangaten sarimbit wonten ing
sana pinajat’ To my close friend, Mr. Leo Agung Suhardi, kindly please lead the wedding procession to usher the bride and groom to their pre-set sofa.
Similarly, when the thank-you address was about to begin, he signalled this very clearly to Mrs. Probo Asmane, as Dumateng panjenenganipun Ibu Probo Asmane, wekdal
sawetasipun kulo aturaken. Sumonggo The floor is yours, Mrs. Probo Asmane, please. Another direction was also given to Orchestra D’Angelis to start their performance
‘wekdal wonten ngarsanipun group lelangen Orkestra D’angelis sumonggo wekdal kawula aturaken’ opportunity is hereby given to Orchestra D’Angelis.
The sentence ‘Sumonggo dumateng priyagung ingkang sampun kawulo sebat asmanipun wekdal kulo aturaken. Nuwun To those individual I have mentioned, the floor
is all yours. Thanks. also indicated a clear direction to Mrs. Veronika, Mr. Alexius Mardi
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Utomo, Mr. Sehadi and Mr. Supardi to do their respective activities. Similarly, the sentence ‘Sumonggo dumateng para wayah kasuwun samekto ing gati, samekto ing diri
Please all the grand children get ready, indicated another clear direction to the grand children of Mrs. Veronika in order to get ready to receive the gifts from their grand
mother. The Pranatacara also gave a clear direction to a group of women on duty in the
ritual of Tumplak Punjen to get off the stage and to Orchestra D’Angelis to do their second performance as found in
Dhumateng Ibu Juru Sumbogo kasuwun enggal-enggal mandap sangkin papan pinajat angerarantu laksitaning adi cara ingkang
kinatap. Lan ugi wekdal sawetawisipun, kawulo aturaken wangsul dumateng Keluarga Orkestra D’Angelis sangking Semarang.
Sumonggo matur nuwun
To a group of women on duty, kindly please get off the stage and I give the opportunity to Orchestra D’Angelis from Semarang. Please, thank you.
In the picture-taking session, the Pranatacara also gave a clear direction such as quoted below:
Wonten wekdal ing wirunggan puniko nyuwun gungan dumatheng sedaya putra wayah kasuwun photo sesarengan
kaliyan putra pinangaten sarimbit lan ugi keluarga ageng Bapak Ignatius Siswanto lan ugi dumateng trah Y. Samadi ing Baturetno,
Trah R. Sugiharto ing Solo, trah M. Suparjo ing Magelang, Trah B. Sastro Sumeknyo ing Baturetno, Trah AG. Sumiyadi ing Klaten,
trah Drs. FX. Yudono ing Nayogyokarta Hadiningrat lan keluarga ageng sangking UNIKA Semarang. Sunggo wonten wekdal
ingkang mirunggan puniko kasuwun photo sesarengan kaliyan putra pinanganten sarimbit. Matur nuwun.
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In this good occasion, all relatives, children and grand children are invited to join the picture-taking activities together the bride
and groom. To the big families of Mr. Ignatius Siswanto, Mr. Y. Samadi from Baturetno, Mr. R. Sugiharto from Solo, Mr. Suparjo
from Magelang, Mr. Sastro Sumeknyo from Baturetno, Mr. AG Sumiyadi from Klaten, Mr. FX. Yudono from Yogyakarta
Hadiningrat and finally the colleagues from UNIKA Semarang, you are all invited to participate in the photo-taking session,
please. Thank you.
From the linguistic evidences above, it is clear that Pranatacara as a profession is not as easy as it is assumed. It really requires a multidimensional skill, or a skill of
skills. He must be fully-knowledgeable in the Javanese language at all levels— phonological, morphological, syntactical and discourse semantic levels. At phonological
level, a Pranatacara must have a good voice in terms of stress and intonation during speech delivery.
At morphological level, he must be equipped with the knowledge of word formation, especially the affixation of the archaic words of Javanese. At syntactical level,
it is necessary for him to be able to construct a variety of sentences from the simplest to the most complex ones, especially with respect to conventional and idiomatic expression
with particular registers of the Pranatacara genre. Finally at discourse semantic level, he must be able to link between one part of a construction to another so as to form a united
whole. The last but of no least importance is that the sentences used in the Pranatacara
genre, though conventional as it may be, cannot be memorized as such since, like a driver, there must be different situations that need different strategies. Wedding
receptions vary from time to time and from situation to situation.
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From the above discussion, it is arguably true that what Mr. Sudiono performed is clearly linked to the theories I have outlined in 2.6.3.3 dealing with Speech Decorum as
another prelude to the investigation of the generic structure.
4.5 Generic Structure
