Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

The Maintenance of Gorontalo Language on Teenager Group: An ethnography at Gorontalo City

Authors
Ulfa Zakaria, Ninuk Lustyantie, Emzir Emzir
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Ulfa Zakaria
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.231How to use a DOI?
Keywords
language maintenance; teenagers; ethnography
Abstract

This research is to follow-up the issue spreading in the community concerning with the language shift that threatens the survival of Gorontalo language (BG), especially in the region of Gorontalo City. Language shifting that increasingly threatens the existence of Gorontalo language tends to occur in teenagers’ groups (10-18 years). To investigate the language use and attitude as well as the inhibiting factors of Gorontalo language maintenance on the teenagers, the authors used ethnographic method. Interview, field observation, and ethnographic recording are used in collecting data. The results showed that the most dominant type of language shift in adolescents is the dominant use of other languages that change the position of Gorontalo language in various aspects of life. Teen-aged speakers prefer to code mixing the Gorontalo languages with other languages such as Manado Malay, Arabic, and Indonesian in their conversations. The language choice is influenced by negative attitudes towards language manifested by the rejection of the Gorontalo language. This negative attitude is also one of the factors inhibiting the language maintenance. The barrier of the Gorontalo language maintenance also includes the attitude of the community language in the social of environment of the adolescents and the local government policy on the maintenance of Gorontalo language.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.231
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.231How 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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