Attitudes to western loanwords in Indonesian

Hassall, Timothy; Murtisari, Elisabet Titik; Donnelly, Christine; Wood, J.

doi:10.1515/ijsl.2008.003

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“…They also tended to disagree with the belief that"WLWs pollute Indonesian" and that WLWs should be avoided when they can be replaced by non-Western words. Although there was a suggestion of mild ambivalence, Hassall et al (2008) believe that the responses demonstrated a "clear general liking and acceptance of [W]estern loanwords" (p.69) and that the negative attitude toward WLWs occasionally expressed by Indonesian language planners and some educated people is "not widely shared by young highly educated Indonesians" (p.70). Besides this, this study found that knowledge of WLWs positively affected students' attitudes towards the loan words.…”

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“…As the younger generation, they are, borrowing Hassall et al's (2008, p.70) words, "the main future determiners of the influence of English on the language". While research has been conducted in this specific area (Dewi, 2014;Hassall et al, 2008), it has been very little, and none has involved a substantial number of respondents nor addressed the perception of high school students. The need to investigate this issue has become more crucial because the subject has also been relatively under researched.…”

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Impact of English on Indonesian Language and Culture: High School Students’ Perception

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2017

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With the advances of globalisation and technology, English dominates international politics, the economy and culture. Spoken by over a quarter of the world's population and enhanced by the presence of the Internet, it enjoys an unparalleled dominance in global communication and has affected people's lives across the globe.This study explores the perception of Indonesian high school students towards the impact of English on the Indonesian language and culture amids concerns about the hegemony of the international language and the country's efforts to maintain its national language. As many as 333 students from five schools in Salatiga, Central Java, participated in this research by filling out a Likert-scaled questionnaire. Unlike previous studies investigating a similar issue in the context of Indonesia, the study demonstrates strongly divided responses from the participants towards English. The students' religions and majors were also shown to be significant factors affecting the responses. Conducted on a wider scope, this research overall reveals stronger perceived tensions between the national language/culture and English than what has been demonstrated in previous research.

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Impact of English on Indonesian Language and Culture: High School Students’ Perception

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2017

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“…Ngoko is nothing more than "daily talk," as described by informants, and it is eliminated from the Central Javanese muatan lokal curriculum before the end of elementary school (Keputusan [Decree] 423.5/5/2010). These ideologies make ngoko an unremarkable, unstandardized, and largely unwritten, communicative practice that the vast majority of the Javanese population happens to speak with each other every day, ever more syncretically with Indonesian (Errington 1998;Goebel 2008;Hassall et al 2008;Cole 2010). In fact, my own experiences watching parents raise their youngest children in Indonesian on a fieldwork visit in 2013, and recent findings by Cohn and Ravindranath (2013), provide further evidence that language shift is spreading beyond just kromo, and that ngoko use is beginning to decrease as well.…”

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“Love” the Local, “Use” the National, “Study” the Foreign: ShiftingJavanese Language Ecologies in (Post‐)Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Globalization

Zentz

2014

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Indonesian state development policies have shaped definitions of language, meanings conveyed through language, and access to language forms through deliberate policy actions that pervade public, and increasingly, private life. Modern language ideologies that are part and parcel of national development have informed these policies and informed educated youths' understandings and rationalizations of their linguistic competencies. In this paper I explore how macro‐level language policies informed by modern language ideologies and micro‐level influences in the form of peer pressure and adult shaming encourage shift toward the national language, Indonesian, and away from Javanese. State policies advising citizens to “love” their local languages, but “use” their one national language, Indonesian, work together with micro‐level social interactions to nudge language shift in the direction of an increasingly monolingual, Indonesian‐speaking populace.

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“…Why is it that this technique has achieved such sustained and widespread use over the years? According to Hassall et al (: 64), the appeal of the MG technique lies in the fact that ‘it has so often proven its ability to tease out two separate dimensions of “competence/status” on the one hand and “solidarity” on the other’. This is indeed the case.…”

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“…Giles 1970;Chia & Brown 2002). Researchers have also employed the technique to investigate attitudes toward a wide variety of other linguistic phenomena, such as lexical borrowings (Hassall et al 2008), /ɪng/ & /ng/ variants (Campbell-Kibler 2007), 'new' quotatives be like & go (Buchstaller 2006), and codeswitching (Gibbons 1987;Lawson & Sachdev 2000).…”

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Singapore Colloquial English: Issues of prestige and identity

Cavallaro

Seilhamer

2014

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Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or ‘Singlish’ is a variety very distinct from Singapore Standardised English (SSE), and its use is a polarising issue in Singaporean society. In stark contrast to the results of most language attitude studies in which non‐standardised varieties are rated positively along solidarity dimensions, participants of matched‐guise studies investigating Singaporean attitudes toward SCE have assigned lower solidarity ratings for SCE than for SSE. This is in stark contrast to anecdotal and public opinion that SCE is a language of solidarity and identity for most Singaporeans. By including participants from non‐tertiary sectors and a wider range of stimulus guises as well as supplementing matched‐guise results with interview data, this study seeks to reveal the covert prestige that SCE does, in fact, appear to enjoy in Singaporean society. While the matched‐guise results of this study largely conform to previous findings, the interview data suggest that many participants were basing their ratings on perceptions of SCE use in the public domain rather than the private domain. The study has implications for the extent to which we can extrapolate results from matched‐guise studies, a widely used instrument for the study of language attitudes in the last 50 years.

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Attitudes to western loanwords in Indonesian

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Impact of English on Indonesian Language and Culture: High School Students’ Perception

Impact of English on Indonesian Language and Culture: High School Students’ Perception

“Love” the Local, “Use” the National, “Study” the Foreign: ShiftingJavanese Language Ecologies in (Post‐)Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Globalization

Singapore Colloquial English: Issues of prestige and identity

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