The Understanding of Friday Prayer Attendees (Mustamik) Towards Friday Sermon Discourse

: Discourse discussions have not received much attention from linguists, even though discourse is a cluster of sentences that has a communicative information unit. Discourse analysis reached a new stage of development in the 1970s. Language studies include grammar and meaning that need to be supported by context in a communication process. The process of communication will succeed if it meets the universal pragmatic requirements, specifically cognitive understanding, statement validity, honesty of speaker and listener, and conformity with the normative bases of the speakers. The method used in this research is descriptive. The source data are khotib or preachers who preach in the cities of Bandung and their surrounding areas and mustamik or Friday prayer attendees who at that time listen to the sermon. This research is expected to give an overview of how the mustamik or comprehend the sermons delivered by the khotib. Results show that most of the mustamik (69.57%) said that they actually understand the khutbah discourse delivered by the khotib. The mustamik comprehension to the khutbah will be used as a representative model in making the text of the Friday khutbah in accordance with the results found in the study.