Sociocultural Factors that Determine Language Choice in A Multilingual Society
Sociolinguistic Study at Tanjungsari Market, Sumedang Regency
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.064How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Language choice; sociocultural factors; Tanjungsari Market
- Abstract
The accuracy of language choice in Tanjungsari Market, Sumedang Regency (TMSR), is a complicated task. This paper describes the sociocultural factors that determine language choice in the TMSR speech community. This study used a sociolinguistic theoretical approach by utilizing ethnographic qualitative methods. This study involved 100 respondents, and data were collected from the use of Sundanese, Javanese, and Indonesian in the TMSR speech community. The findings showed that there were five sociocultural factors that determined language choice: speech participants, speech situation, speech purpose, subject matter, and speech norms. Factors of speech participants included speakers, speech partner, and third speaker. In the speaker’s reason, there were categories of gender, age, and level of education. Social status and level of intimacy were found in the speech partner reason. Code-switching from Sundanese code to Indonesian code to avoid language conflicts were also found in the third speech participant presence reason. The speech situation in TMSR is a relaxed situation, both in the family, work, and social domains. Two kinds of speech purposes in TMSR were found including representative speech and directive speech. The subject matter contained in TMSR is the topic of buying and selling and traditional topics. In the context of speech norms, there has been a shift in social norms in several utterances in TMSR, namely the choice of a Sundanese-familiar code with older people, both with family members and with other people.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mahmud Fasya AU - Dini Gilang Sari PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/21 TI - Sociocultural Factors that Determine Language Choice in A Multilingual Society BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 412 EP - 418 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.064 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.064 ID - Fasya2021 ER -