Membaca “Kecubung Pengasihan”,

Menimbang Muatan Stilistika

Heru S.P. Saputra

Jurusan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Sastra Universitas Jember

Jalan Kalimantan 37 Jember 68121

heruespe@gmail.com

Abstract

This article is talking about short story entitled ”Kecubung Pengasihan” (”KP”) written by Danarto by employing Stylistics theory. The study indicates that this short story employs language potential, especially various language styles. This styles include choice of words, tones in the discourse, sound repetition, sentence structure, and the direct indirect meaning. Language style in ”KP” is a reflection of the author’s attitude who realizes the strength of language as an aesthetic discourse which at the same time has the potential to form meaning. The author’s creativity in employing language style is able to give strong and intens impression to the readers, as well as help comprehensively cohere the meaning formation to the work.

Key words: stylistics, strength of language, coherence, meaning.