Communication Strategy in Javanese
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN JAVANESE
Majid Wajdi
mawa2id @yahoo.com
Politeknik Negeri Bali
Abstract
This paper tries to look critically at the
phenomenon of language or code choice and code usage in Javanese. As a language
that lives in a situation of diglosia, Javanese is known as a language
characterized by high and low speech levels. The level of high speech or high
code (krama) and the low level of speech or low code (ngoko) are what makes
Javanese language included in the category of diglosia in language or language
that lives in a diglosia situation. If we look at the phenomenon of code choice
and the use of code in Javanese using a theory of code, namely the theory of
code switching or code mixing, it turns out that there is something very
interesting and at the same time have not much explored and discussed so far in
studies of language codes and code choices especially Javanese.
So far the phenomenon of choice and use of code in
language diglosia, namely language that recognizes high and low levels of
speech, turns out to be generalized as a phenomenon that occurs in a non-diglosia
bilingual or non-diglosia bilingualism. This means that the phenomenon of code
choice and the use of code in diglosia situations must be carefully
distinguished by the phenomenon of choice and use of code in the bilingual and
bilingualism of non-diglosia. Given the status of high speech (high code) and
low level of speech (low code), the choice of code and use of codes in the
language or language diglosia must be carefully distinguished from the
phenomenon of choice and use of code in the non-bilingual diglossia.
The phenomenon of choice and the use of high code
(krama) and low code (ngoko) in the Javanese language allows the occurrence of
code switching, code mixing, as well as code crossing. If high code and low
code are used by two speakers in a conversation, say speaker 1 (using high
code) and speakers 2 (using low codes), then the fenemona that occurs is not
only the phenomenon of code switching or code mixing, but the phenomenon of
code crossing.
Keywords:
conversation strategy, code switching, cross code, Javanese speech levels
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