Speech Characteristics of Indonesian Caregivers Towards Elderly in Japan

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

speech; politeness strategy; Indonesian caregiver; elderly

Abstract

This study aims to find out the speech characteristics used by caregiver when serving elderly patients. The usage of appropriate speech related to selection of appropriate vocabulary and language. And also related to the use of speech level in Japanese, whether using keigo or futsuukei. This study also focus on speech affect the comfort of the elderly patient. This study was conducted some nursing home in Japan. Random sampling method was applied to select the research location. The subject of this research is Indonesian caregiver spreaded in 6 nursing home, the elderly, and the management of the hospital. Methods in collecting the data are observation, questionnaires, and interviews. The results of this study is a collection of specific vocabulary in the field of nursing, as well as the characteristic of caregiver’s Japanese utterances understand from the type of speech and the choice of vocabulary used when speaking.

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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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AU  - Putu Dewi Merlyna
AU  - N. L. Sutjiati Beratha
AU  - Made Budiarsa
AU  - I Nengah Sudipa
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Speech Characteristics of Indonesian Caregivers Towards Elderly in Japan
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 415
EP  - 418
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.76
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