RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN TV SERIES RAMY SEASON ONE

People are constantly developing their identities throughout their lives. This research uses a TV series, Ramy, season one, consisting of 10 episodes, as the object of analysis. The main character, Ramy, constructs his religious identity through language, shown in his conversation with his speech partner. This research explains how Ramy builds his religious identity with language and identity theory by Joanna Thornborrow and also explains the use of English as a reference to religious terminology that represents Ramy as Muslim with George Yule’s reference theory. This research also analyzes the influential factors that make Ramy use English instead of religious terminology with the ethnography of communication theory by Dell Hymes. This research uses the qualitative and identity methods to analyze the data, and Joanna Thornborrow’s language and identity theory is the leading theory. Ramy’s religious identity is constructed through personal identity, group identity, and linguistic variation. In constructing personal identity, names and naming practices and a system of address show Ramy as a Muslim. The construction of group identity consists of the identity and representation and in-groups and out-groups. The identity and representation will be explained with reference theory by George Yule and ethnography of communication theory by Dell Hymes. In in-groups and out-groups, analyzes code-switching and the behaviors of Ramy that show he is a Muslim. There is an explanation about style-shifting that constructs Ramy’s religious identity through code-switching for the linguistic variation