Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2018)

Language Attitude toward Vernacular Language Use: A Case of Jakarta

Authors
Noni Agustina, Ilza Mayuni, Ninuk Lustyantie
Corresponding Author
Noni Agustina
Available Online January 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icoie-18.2019.73How to use a DOI?
Keywords
language attitude, vernacular language, migration, diglossia, three generation
Abstract

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia that has multilingual community. Even though Jakarta is multiethnic, the use of Bahasa Indonesia has the dominant role as a national and official language. Mostly, Jakarta inhabitants use it even they have their vernacular language. That condition emerges the question on the vernacular language use in Jakarta. Considering from 746 vernacular languages in Indonesia, 296 suspected disappeared or in endangered state. It was required to investigate the language attitude across three generations of Jakarta inhabitants towards vernacular language use. This study applied qualitative approach with in-depth interview, observation and questionnaire from fifteen participants consisted of parents as the first generation, children as the second generation and grandchildren as the third generation. The study gave the deep understanding on three generation language attitudes toward their language vernacular use in their daily life in Jakarta context

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-662-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icoie-18.2019.73How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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