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Polite Vocabulary In The Javanese Language Of Surabaya, Daniel Krauße
Polite Vocabulary In The Javanese Language Of Surabaya, Daniel Krauße
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Surabaya and its surroundings are known for their peculiar dialect, which does not only exhibit very characteristic phonological and morphological features, but also has a politeness, honorific, and deferential system that has so far remained largely understudied. It is the aim of this paper to shed further light on the sociolinguistic situation of the Javanese dialect of the city of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia with a focus on the polite vocabulary (Krama, Krama Andhap, and Krama Inggil). Although to the Central Javanese ear, speakers of Surabayan Javanese sound discourteous, they by no means are impolite. After a general introduction about …
Losing The Battle; The Marginalization Of Javanese Compact Forms, Aris Munandar
Losing The Battle; The Marginalization Of Javanese Compact Forms, Aris Munandar
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
In the contact situation with Indonesian, the standard variety of Javanese in Yogyakarta is experiencing an incipient shift. The shift is indicated by the shrinking domain of use, and the degradation of speakers’ proficiency. It also reveals some ongoing changes in its structure, observable in the tendency of the younger generation to use particular elements different to those used by grandparent and parent generations. This article examines unique patterns of Javanese morphosyntax by focusing on the suffix -a, infix -um-, -in-, and confix ka-an, on the basis of utterances recorded from authentic speech events involving speakers of different generations. The …
The Expression Of Location And Space In Surinamese And Indonesian Javanese, Sophie Villerius
The Expression Of Location And Space In Surinamese And Indonesian Javanese, Sophie Villerius
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This paper examines the influence of language contact and multilingualism on the expression of location and space in the heritage variety of Javanese spoken in Suriname. Alongside Javanese, this community also speaks Sranantongo and Dutch. It is found that Surinamese speakers tend to use simple locative constructions more frequently than baseline speakers, at the expense of complex constructions. It is shown that the individual speaker variables age, generation, place of residence, and network play a role in explaining the usage of simple versus complex locative constructions in Surinamese Javanese: the more language contact speakers experience, the more they will use …