Identifying Social Class in the Society of Java

DOI

10.2991/icss-19.2019.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

derivative verbs; lower class; high class; tiyang alit; priyayi of Java

Abstract

This research tries to find the vocabulary of the language of Java which refers to the upper class and the lower class in the society of Java in order to distinguish between the upper class and lower class. Some vocabularies or nouns of the language of Java can be changed into verbs through morphological processes by adding a prefix of Ng- [ŋ]. On the other hands; some basic nouns in the language of Java are unable to be changed into a verb through the same process; namely by adding the prefix of Ng- [ŋ]. The research findings show that vocabularies or nouns which can be converted into verbs by giving the prefix of Ng- [ŋ] are nouns that refers to the lower class of the society of Java; whereas nouns that tend not to be able to convert into verbs by adding the prefix of Ng- [ŋ] are nouns which refer to the upper class of Java. Low and high classes of the society of Java are based on three sources: nobility; educational background and wealth.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Majid Wajdi
AU  - Paulus Subiyanto
AU  - I Made Sumartana
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Identifying Social Class in the Society of Java
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science 2019 (ICSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1095
EP  - 1099
SN  - 2352-5398
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