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2018

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The Sekujam Language Of West Kalimantan (Indonesia), James T. Collins, Herpanus Herpanus Oct 2018

The Sekujam Language Of West Kalimantan (Indonesia), James T. Collins, Herpanus Herpanus

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Almost two hundred years ago, O. van Kessel identified a language group based on a characteristic sound change that yielded -ai in the final position of some words (Van Kessel 1850: 166); Hudson (1970) named this group “Ibanic” after the Iban language widely spoken in Sarawak. Of the numerous members of the Ibanic branch of Malayic, perhaps the Sekujam language is the least known. Although Sujarni et al. (2008: 282-285) provided information about the location and traditions of the Sekujam ethnic group, there is very little information about the language. Based on available colonial and contemporary sources, this essay provides …

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The First Standard Grammar Of Malay; George Werndly’S 1736 Maleische Spraakkunst, Waruno Mahdi Oct 2018

The First Standard Grammar Of Malay; George Werndly’S 1736 Maleische Spraakkunst, Waruno Mahdi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

A brief biography of George Henrik Werndly and description of contemporaneous development of linguistics is followed by a perusal of Melchior Leydekker’s and Petrus van der Vorm’s policy of strictly using Classical Malay in Christian publication, that served as basis of Werndly’s work. Then, a detailed perusal of Werndly’s 1736 Malay grammar, in particular the divisions (“books”) on (I) spelling, (II) morphology, and (III) syntax, is illustrated by reproductions of original text passages. Elements of the complicated Latin-script spelling are demonstrated in detail and compared with that of other authors in separate tables. Werndly’s grammatical terminology is considered, and where …

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Investigating Indonesian Conversation; Approach And Rationale, Michael C. Ewing Oct 2018

Investigating Indonesian Conversation; Approach And Rationale, Michael C. Ewing

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Colloquial Indonesian has often been described in terms of its differences from standard Indonesian, but with such an approach, aspects of informal language usage will go unexplored. This article proposes using the theoretical approach of Interactional Linguistics to more adequately describe the dynamic nature of Indonesian as actually used by its speakers. Interactional Linguistics emphasizes usage-based analysis of natural language data, especially conversation, in order to understand relationships between social actions and language structure. This article gives an overview of Interactional Linguistics, illustrated by two short English examples taken form the literature. It then presents an analysis of two aspects …

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Sound-Changes And Loanwords In Sungai Penuh Kerinci, Hein Steinhauer Oct 2018

Sound-Changes And Loanwords In Sungai Penuh Kerinci, Hein Steinhauer

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In this paper I shall (re)analyse the historical development of the Sungai Penuh variety of Kerinci in terms of sound-changes, with special attention to forms which deviate from the more common patterns. Data for this study have been taken from the stencilled version of Amir Hakim Usman’s Kerinci-Indonesian dictionary (1976) with handwritten annotations by the author, the late David John Prentice, and myself, the result of elicitation sessions with the author in 1977 in Leiden. Some additional data derived from Usman 1988 and from an interview with the author in 1999.

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Reimar Schefold, Toys For The Souls; Life And Art On The Mentawai Islands, Juniator Tulius Oct 2018

Reimar Schefold, Toys For The Souls; Life And Art On The Mentawai Islands, Juniator Tulius

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

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Utterance-Final Particles In Klang Valley Malay, Tom G. Hoogervorst Oct 2018

Utterance-Final Particles In Klang Valley Malay, Tom G. Hoogervorst

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper examines a group of small morphemes analysed as “utterance-final particles” in the Malay variety of the Klang Valley, West Malaysia. It provides a preliminary investigation into their usage and diachronic evolution, connecting fieldwork-based findings with extant research on other Malay varieties. There is no univocal definition of utterance-final particles – known by other scholars as “discourse particles” or “pragmatic particles” – nor broad agreement on the term’s conceptual validity. Most previous research on Malay varieties approaches these units as unbound morphemes with no grammatical and little obvious lexical meaning, relegating their functionality to the realm of pragmatics. This …

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Regular Sound Change; The Evidence Of A Single Example, Alexander Adelaar Oct 2018

Regular Sound Change; The Evidence Of A Single Example, Alexander Adelaar

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The Neogrammarians of the Leipzig School introduced the principle that sound changes are regular and that this regularity is without exceptions. At least as a working hypothesis, this principle has remained the basis of the comparative method up to this day. In the first part of this paper, I give a short account of how historical linguists have defended this principle and have dealt with apparent counter evidence. In the second part, I explore if a sound change can be regular if it is attested in one instance only. I conclude that it is, provided that the concomitant phonetic (and …

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Notes On Structural Distinctions In Malay Dialects, Alexander K. Ogloblin Oct 2018

Notes On Structural Distinctions In Malay Dialects, Alexander K. Ogloblin

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Some features of phonology, morphophonemics, and morphology are offered, which seem to be useful for classifying Malay dialects on structural basis. Dialectal differences with Standard Malay are illustrated on minor samples of Johor and Kelantan dialects recorded during author’s stay in Malaysia several decades ago.

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Maria Wronska-Friend, Batik Jawa Bagi Dunia - Javanese Batik To The World, Liliawati Kurnia Oct 2018

Maria Wronska-Friend, Batik Jawa Bagi Dunia - Javanese Batik To The World, Liliawati Kurnia

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

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Polite Vocabulary In The Javanese Language Of Surabaya, Daniel Krauße Apr 2018

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 …

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Wòlak-Waliké Jaman; Exploring Contemporary Walikan In Public Space, Nurenzia Yannuar Apr 2018

Wòlak-Waliké Jaman; Exploring Contemporary Walikan In Public Space, Nurenzia Yannuar

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article describes the current use of Walikan, a youth language in Malang, Indonesia. Unlike any previously described youth registers in Indonesia, Walikan has been around since as early as the 1940s and has continuously reinvented itself ever since. As will be shown, the speakers of Walikan have certain strategies to keep the practice alive. In addition to the use of Walikan in face-to-face communication, they also use Walikan in songs, local TV news, local newspaper columns as well as in public signs. The analysis focuses on how a youth language which began as an oral practice has been maintained …

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The Description Of The Di- Passive Construction In Dialectal Javanese, Noor Malihah Apr 2018

The Description Of The Di- Passive Construction In Dialectal Javanese, Noor Malihah

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This corpus of the non-standard Kudus dialect of Javanese (JDK) passive voice construction was compiled in the course of fieldwork in Kudus and was annotated to draw attention to several syntactic/semantic features. An investigation was undertaken of the di- affix in the JDK which encodes the passive function in contrast to the Standard Javanese in a quantitative descriptive analysis. The results indicate the existence of an “abbreviated agentive passive” which occurs more frequently than the “agentive passive”, but less frequently than the “agentless passive”. The results also show that the passives in JDK are in fact likely to have inanimate …

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The Expression Of Location And Space In Surinamese And Indonesian Javanese, Sophie Villerius Apr 2018

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 …

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Perception Of English Vowels By Javanese And Sundanese Speakers; A Mouse-Tracking Study, Arum Perwitasari Apr 2018

Perception Of English Vowels By Javanese And Sundanese Speakers; A Mouse-Tracking Study, Arum Perwitasari

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Second language (L2) learners often encounter difficulties caused by the interference of their native language (L1). The aim of this study is to examine how the Javanese and Sundanese vowel systems hinder the perception of ten English vowels. Thirty Javanese, thirty Sundanese, and twenty English native speakers participated in a mouse-tracking experiment. Participants were required to identify English vowels corresponding to an auditory token by clicking on one of two word strings presented on a computer screen. According to the Speech Learning Model (SLM) hypothesis, the Javanese and Sundanese speakers were predicted to have higher error rates and show a …

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The Compartmentalization Of Languages And Identities Among Nationalist Youth In Semarang, Kristian Tamtomo Apr 2018

The Compartmentalization Of Languages And Identities Among Nationalist Youth In Semarang, Kristian Tamtomo

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Contemporary mainstream discourse on youths in Indonesia tends to define it in terms of the popular-culture-oriented notion of youth. This article seeks to show that certain state-formed youth groups, particularly in institutional settings, continue to promote the state-oriented pemuda or nationalist youth identity. By looking at an example of a Paskibra group (Pasukan Pengibar Bendera – the Flag- Raising Troop) from a state vocational high school in Semarang, Central Java, the article seeks to highlight the way in which these youths combine language and symbolic behaviours to present this nationalist identity. Concurrently, these youths also appropriate elements of popular culture …

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Behind The Eco-Friendliness Of “Batik Warna Alam”; Discovering The Motives Behind The Production Of Batik In Jarum Village, Klaten, Widhi Handayani, Augustinus Ign Kristijanto, Arianti Ina Restiani Hunga Apr 2018

Behind The Eco-Friendliness Of “Batik Warna Alam”; Discovering The Motives Behind The Production Of Batik In Jarum Village, Klaten, Widhi Handayani, Augustinus Ign Kristijanto, Arianti Ina Restiani Hunga

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The policy of sustainable production has encouraged small batik businesses to shift to natural dyes as these are considered eco-friendly. However, the motivation behind juragan batiks’ embracing natural dyes still has some question marks attached. This qualitative study explains the motivation of the juragan batiks in using natural colourants in their production of batik warna alam and explores the significance of batik warna alam to juragan batik. We found the production of batik warna alam tended to be triggered by economic reasons not environmental consciousness. This related to the meaning of batik warna alam to maintaining the economic survival of …

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Irrealis, Aspect, And Complementation In Old Javanese, Thomas M. Hunter Apr 2018

Irrealis, Aspect, And Complementation In Old Javanese, Thomas M. Hunter

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article focuses on two issues in the study of the syntax and semantics of the Old Javanese: (1) the effects of irrealis on the marking of the “passive” or Undergoer Voice verb phrases of Old Javanese, and (2) the study of complementation in Old Javanese, with particular reference to a particle n/an, first studied in an article by E.M. Uhlenbeck (1986). The study is introduced with a brief survey of some of the major components of the morphosyntactic system of Old Javanese developed largely using the analytical framework of Nicholas Himmelmann’s study (2005) of the symmetrical voice systems of …

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Losing The Battle; The Marginalization Of Javanese Compact Forms, Aris Munandar Apr 2018

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 …

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The Development Of The English-Type Passive In Balinese, Hiroki Nomoto Apr 2018

The Development Of The English-Type Passive In Balinese, Hiroki Nomoto

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The morpheme -a in Balinese is ambiguous because it can serve as a third person enclitic pronoun or a passive voice marker. Various views exist about whether the morpheme can be a pronoun in the presence of a teken agentive phrase. This paper argues that it can and that the construction in which the pronoun -a and a teken phrase co-occur (the hybrid type) is an instance of clitic doubling. A hypothesis about how the third person pronoun became a passive marker and how various passive sub-types came into existence is proposed. It is claimed that the hybrid type played …

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