Anglophile Journal Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2021 ISSN : 2746-8631 Pronoun, Personal Titles, and Variety of Java-Indonesian Language in Yowis Ben The Series Film: Contrastive Study Yustri Agung Prastiyono 1 * , Yacub Fahmilda 2 , Suryawahyuni Latief 3 1,2 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia 3 Universitas Nurdin Hamzah Jambi, Indonesia Yustri.a@mail.ugm.ac.id* ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received March 27, 2021 Revised April 12, 2021 Accepted April 17, 2021 Abstract This study aimed to identify and to contrast differences in Javanese- Indonesian speech acts in the Yowis Ben The Series film. This study used a contrastive analysis study with a sociolinguistic approach, which in this context emphasizes the aspects of pronouns, personal titles, and language variations. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The data in this study are speech acts in Javanese and Indonesian (translation) which are used as dialogues in the film. The data source in this study was taken from the Yowis Ben The Series film through the WeTV video streaming application. The results of this study indicated that there were differences usage of Javanese-Indonesian speech in aspects of pronouns, personal titles, and language variations. This difference was due to non-linguistic aspects, such as the speaker's background, age, position or degree of speech partners in society. Keywords: Speech Act, Contrastive Analysis, Sociolinguistic How to cite Prastiyono, Y., Fahmida, Y., & Latief, S., (2021). Pronoun, Personal Titles, and Variety of Java-Indonesian Language in Yowis Ben The Series Film: Contrastive Study. Anglophile Journal, 1(2).p.32-41. https://dx.doi.org/10.51278/anglophile.v1i2.228 This is an open access article under the CC BY SA license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Published by CV. Creative Tugu Pena INTRODUCTION Language is the most important aspect of human life. Through language, humans can form and understand culture in society. In this connection, Anderson in Tarigan (2009) argues that the essence of language is a means of communication. Furthermore, Brown in Tarigan (2009) also argues that the essence of language is not just a means of communication but a system consisting of a set of symbols (vocals or visuals) which have conventional meanings. From this explanation, it can be concluded that language is a system consisting of symbols (vocals or visuals) containing certain information or meanings that present and play a role in the formation of culture in the community. Over time, languages develop according to their respective environments. Basically, language has formed a peculiarity in various existing cultures. As a result, language developed rapidly and was considered an identity to mark the culture of a particular society. For example, Javanese language is closely related to Indonesian. Javanese is a local language that is growing rapidly on the island of Java, while Indonesian is the national language that comes from the Malay language family. Even though they have different positions in their usage, they both have similarities because in the process of development, Indonesian vocabulary is largely absorbed from Javanese. Furthermore, the fundamental difference between Javanese-Indonesian is that there is a speech level in Javanese which can be categorized as a variety of ngoko (Ng = coarse), madya variety (Kl = medium), and variety of krama (Ki = polite). Notice the example below. Anglophile Journal Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2021 https://www.attractivejournal.com/index.php/anglophile/