Language Styles Used in Novel “Dilan: Dia adalah Dilanku Tahun 1990”

This study deals with the language styles used in “Dilan: Dia adalah Dilanku Tahun
1990” novel by Pidi Baiq. The objectives of this study are to find out the types of
language styles, the realization of the types, and the reason why the types of language
styles used by the main character in the novel. The study was conducted by using by
using descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from Dilan’s utterances, as
the main character, in the novel. The technique of collecting the data was transcribing
the data from the novel and then eliminating the data to be analyzed. After analyzing
the data, it was found that there were five types of language style used by Dilan with
the consultative style for most contributing style (79.4%) of all usage, followed by
casual style, formal style, frozen style, and intimate style. And the usage of language
styles by Dilan was influenced by so many social aspects.