Indonesian Language Pride in Nihongo Mantappu’s YouTube Channel
A Sociolinguistic Study
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.079How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Indonesian; language pride; Nihongo Mantappu; sociolinguistics; YouTube
- Abstract
Technological development has to be used as an opportunity to introduce the Indonesian language as the identity of the Indonesian nation abroad. YouTube is one of the heterogeneous virtual platforms that involves people all over the country. This phenomenon encourages Indonesian to continue to compete with foreign languages so that efforts to introduce and maintain Indonesian should be intensified. This qualitative descriptive study aims to qualitatively describe the phenomenon of the Indonesian language pride of Jerome Polin Sijabat on the YouTube channel of Nihongo Mantappu. The data were the utterances of Jerome Polin Sijabat and other supporting YouTubers who use Indonesian and written comments from netizens obtained from the Nihongo Mantappu YouTube channel. The data sources of this research were the YouTube channel of Nihongo Mantappu. Data were collected by downloading, screen capturing, note-taking techniques, and viewing techniques. The results of this study indicated that Jerome Polin Sijabat has a proud attitude of speaking Indonesian. It is indicated when Jerome Polin Sijabat makes Indonesian as his identity. Jerome Polin Sijabat uses Indonesian when asking, inviting, informing, promoting to his friends who are originally from Japan on the YouTube channel of Nihongo Mantappu.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nunung Sitaresmi AU - Lilis Siti Sulistyaningsih AU - Rahmawati PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/21 TI - Indonesian Language Pride in Nihongo Mantappu’s YouTube Channel BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 510 EP - 516 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.079 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.079 ID - Sitaresmi2021 ER -