Contemporary Javanese youth in short stories

Susilowati, Meinarni (2018) Contemporary Javanese youth in short stories. Presented at The 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations, 26-28 September 2018, Jakarta.

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Abstract

High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifies new dimensions of their language. They challenge existing values, social categories and ideologies through their use of vernacular. This may project the contesting sociocultural situations which can stimulate newly deployed contemporary Javanese youth’s identity. Therefore, investigating how young people’s practices across spaces and the ways these practices are connected to local places or neighbourhoods is significant to do. This multi-dimension research which combined sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology gathered the data from short stories on two Javanese magazines published in 2017-2018. Narrative sequences from the stories were treated as the sociolinguistic landscapes which mirrored the constellations of sociocultural constructions experienced by the youth. The analysis revealed that the youth’s life was projected within the academic contexts which reflected the urban atmosphere; romance was vividly told in metropolitan settings, as imagined community. Interestingly, digital literacy became the essential part of the youth’s interactions which essentially upgraded the role of Javanese into global social networking. These implicate the pivotal roles of multilingualism awareness and digital literacy language on the youth’s communication.

Item Type:	Conference (Paper)
Keywords:	contemporary Javanese youth; short stories; sociocultural constructions; identity deployment
Depositing User:	Zulaikha Zulaikha
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2020 16:59

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