The Option Pattern of 'Ngrasani' (Gossiping) Code by Javanese Women in Social Interaction
- DOI
- 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.44How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- code option patterns; ngrasani ‘gossiping about someone’; rural Javanese women; urban Javanese women; social interaction
- Abstract
The present study discusses the option pattern of ngrasani ‘gossiping about someone’ by rural and urban Javanese women when involved in social interaction called rewang ‘taking part in other’s event’, arisan (a regular social gathering where a lottery is conducted), and positive relation among neighbours. The approach operative in the study is sociolinguistic in nature. The research site covers Klaten regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The data were collected by recording conversations among rural and urban Javanese women when they ngrasani (gossiped) about someone in the very social interactions. The research findings reveal that the code options comprised of Bahasa Jawa Ngoko (casual Javanese language), Bahasa Jawa Krama (formal Javanese language), the combination of Ngoko and Krama language, and the combination of Javanese language and Indonesian or even foreign language. The code options used by Javanese women when gossiping about someone envinces that the higher a woman’s social and education class was, the more varied code options she used. By contrast, the lower a woman’s social and education class was, the fewer code options she used. Also, the younger she was, the more varied her language would be. These findings corroborate that correlation is evident between the language a woman speaks and her habits, which are different across ages and education levels.
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- © 2018, 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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TY - CONF AU - Prembayun Miji Lestari AU - Djatmika Djatmika AU - Sumarlam Sumarlam AU - Dwi Purnanto PY - 2018/08 DA - 2018/08 TI - The Option Pattern of 'Ngrasani' (Gossiping) Code by Javanese Women in Social Interaction BT - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 235 EP - 239 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.44 DO - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.44 ID - Lestari2018/08 ER -