Open AccessLanguage Shifting Phenomenon from Javanese to Bahasa Indonesia in English Department Students’ Utterances
Author(s) -
Deli Nirmala,
Mytha Candria
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of social sciences and humanities invention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2349-2031
DOI - 10.18535/ijsshi/v6i7.01
Subject(s) - phenomenon , linguistics , psychology , task (project management) , engineering , philosophy , systems engineering , epistemology
Javanese shifting to bahasa Indonesia can be identified in Javanese young generation’s utterances. This paper aims at finding out how Javanese is getting to shift to Bahasa Indonesia and an alternative speech level. To investigate this phenomenon, we used DCT (Discourse Completion Task) and recording techniques to collect the data i.e the utterances produced by the English Department Students of Diponegoro University whose parents are Javanese. we used referential, inferential, and distributional methods to analyze the data. The results indicate that the students’ utterances can be identified as congruent Javanese speech level, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia mixed with Javanese items, Javanese mixed with Bahasa Indonesia items, incongruent Javanese speech levels, and alternative Javanese speech levels. The mixing codes may be used for mitigating the force of threatening, or for hedging.