@article{Haryono_2018, title={Communicative Competence in Mlayokaken Tradition of Banyuwangi “Using” Community}, volume={5}, url={https://valleyinternational.net/index.php/theijsshi/article/view/1441}, DOI={10.18535/ijsshi/v5i8.03}, abstractNote={<p>’<em>Melayokaken</em>’ which means abducting a woman who has been loved by a man but they are not approved by the woman’s parents. The tradition takes place among Banyuwangi <em>Using</em> community (BUC) that has been going on for long time from generation to generation. This event can certainly make a conflict among families and in the community. In general, this study aims at exploring and describing the communicative competence in <em>melayokaken</em> tradition. In particular, it will explore the linguistic knowledge that is used by <em>melayokaken actors</em>; the application of interaction skill used by the actors involved in the <em>melayokaken </em>tradition; the cultural knowledge applied in <em>melayokaken</em> tradition<em>.</em>The method used to achieve the research objectives is qualitative method, with the focus on ethnographic study of communication. The data collected through participant observation, interview, and recording are transcribed into written data and then analyzed using speech component analysis with communication ethnography method. The study result finds that the communicative competence possessed by the people involved in <em>melayokaken</em> tradition (the young man abducting, the abducted woman, the woman’s parents, the man’s parents, and the mediator called <em>colok</em>) can be well categorized from the linguistic knowledge, interaction skills, and cultural knowledge in the process of <em>melayokaken </em>tradition. From this finding, it is very important for the people involved in <em>melayokaken</em> tradition, especially for the <em>colok</em>, to have these communicative competence features in order the conflict among Using community will not happen.</p>}, number={8}, journal={International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention}, author={Haryono, Akhmad}, year={2018}, month={Aug.}, pages={4923–4930} }