Address Terms Across Cultures: A Sociopragmatic Analysis

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

address terms, cultures, influencing factors, family life, public life

Abstract

In daily communication, the use of address terms is very common and natural to communicants. They are required to use the terms appropriately in terms of some aspects and points of view. The wrong use of the terms may disturb the social relationship among the communicants. Address terms can be used among members of a family and by people publicly. Address terms can also be used variously by the people coming from different cultures. In this study, sociopragmatic approach was used in which the characteristics of the users of address terms were considered. In this descriptive qualitative analysis, the culture in terms of which the address terms were used was Javanese culture with some subcultures. In English and Indonesian cultures, the address terms were analyzed as a comparison with Javanese culture. The data were the expressions containing address terms in Javanese, Indonesian, and English. The data of Javanese and Indonesian address terms were collected from the daily life and those of English were collected from written and electronic sources. The data were collected by using observation method, noting technique, and intuition technique. The data were analyzed by using padan pragmatik method, comparison method, and agih method for certain cases. The findings show that there are a lot of address terms which are used very variously in Javanese, Indonesian, and English cultures. Regarding the characteristics of the address terms users, in family life, there are many specific address terms, while in public life, there are many generic address terms. In certain cases, there is no a clear cut of the use of the address terms in family life and in public life. Some address terms are used both in family life and in public life. Address terms are also used formally and informally. Among the factors influencing the use of the address terms are (1) different kinship, (2) age, (3) education, (4) (Islam) religion knowledge, (5) sex, (6) different job accupation/position, (7) different intimacy, (8) social class, and (9) the geographical group.

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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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