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Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia

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  • Presents research on Indonesian and Javanese language practices

  • Focuses on child and youth language practices

  • Provides insights into how sociocultural changes impact on language use

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Children’s and Young Adult’s Narrative Production

  2. Children, Language and Tradition

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About this book

This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of language for narrative production and within the realm of popular culture and traditional cultural practices in Indonesia. Through studies that include cohesion in narrative production, language in radio advertising, naming practices and formulaic prohibitions in Javanese, and speech presentation in popular fiction, the book provides insights into how sociocultural changes are reflected in language. This book is a useful resource for students and scholars conducting research on language and cultural practices in Indonesia, particularly in relation to children and young people.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia

    Bernadette Kushartanti

  • The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

    Dwi Noverini Djenar

About the editors

Bernadette Kushartanti is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia. Her research interests are language variation, language acquisition and interaction. Her publications include ‘The Acquisition of Stylistic Variation by Jakarta Indonesian Children’ (LOT, 2014), ‘Children’s Use of Bahasa Indonesia in Jakarta Kindergartens’ (with H. Van de Velde and M. Everaert in WACANA Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (16), 2015), ‘Acquiring social and linguistic competence: A study on morphological variation in Jakarta Indonesian preschoolers' speech’ (with H. Van de Velde and M. Everaert in ‘Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan’, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021).

 

Dwi Noverini Djenar is Associate Professor in Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in topics related to self and addressee reference, youth language practices, and place reference in interaction. She has published books and articles in the areas of discourse and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and grammar, focusing on Indonesian, including ‘Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Perspectives of Preposition Use: A Study of Indonesian Locatives’ (Pacific Linguistics, 2007), ‘Indonesian Reference Grammar’ (with J. Sneddon, A. Adelaar and M.C. Ewing; Allen & Unwin/Routledge, 2010), ‘Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction’ (with M.C. Ewing and H. Manns; De Gruyter 2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia

  • Editors: Bernadette Kushartanti, Dwi Noverini Djenar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4775-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4774-4Published: 12 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4777-5Published: 12 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4775-1Published: 11 October 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Asian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Youth Culture

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