Modalities in Riau Malay Dialect of East Kampar

ABSTRACT : Humans as social activities communicate in everyday life. Language plays an important role in communicating and interacting. The language spoken by a person cannot be separated from behavior and beliefs. The behaviors and beliefs that a person speaks in interactions are known as modalities. Indonesian has various elements that can be used to describe modalities. Indonesia as a multilingual country has a variety of regional languages. One of the regional languages in Indonesia is Malay. Malay plays an important role in Indonesian because of the variety of languages. This study aims to discuss and describe the types and functions of modalities in the Riau Malay dialect of East Kampar. The results of this study indicate that the Riau Malay dialect of Kampar contains 4 types of modalities which include intentional, epistemic, deontic and dynamic modalities. The results also show that the Riau Malay dialect of Kampar contains 3 modalities functions, namely expressive, directive and informational functions.

KEYWORDS :modalities, function, riau malay language, dialect, east kampar