ABSTRAKSkripsi ini membahas makna dari istilah ?Cina? di Indonesia jika ditinjau secara etimologis, penggunaannya di masyarakat, serta pendapat warga negara Indonesia non-keturunan Tionghoa. Topik ini diambil karena selama ini istilah ?Cina? cenderung dianggap memiliki makna diskriminatif dan makna negatif lainnya bagi keturunan Tionghoa di Indonesia. Metode yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kepustakaan dalam bidang sosiolinguistik dan peneliian lapangan dengan melakukan survei menggunakan kuesioner sebagai alat pengumpul data. Hasil penelitian akan menguraikan makna istilah ?Cina? di Indonesia secara etimologis dan penggunaan istilah ini di masyarakat, serta memaparkan pendapat warga negara Indonesia non-keturunan Tionghoa mengenai istilah ?Cina?.

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ABSTRACTThe term ?Cina? in Indonesian social usage is perceived as a derogatory term by a certain people who are Indonesian Chinese descendants. According to them, ?Cina? has a negative and discrimination sense. This field research tries to describe the ?Cina? term from sociolinguistic and etimological point of view. Not like formerly researches which used Indonesian Chinese descendants as their informants, in this research I use the Indonesian indigenous people. The data are collected from questionnaires answered by informants. The result will describe the meaning of ?Cina? in Indonesia, and other non-derogatory terms such as ?Tiongkok? and ?Tionghoa? from etimological perspective. Beside that, I will describe the Indonesian indigenous people?s opinion about the ?Cina? term as showed by the data.