Language Shift in Chinese-Indonesian Community

David Werhoru, Alex Jhon

2018

Abstract

The article explored the language shift within the Chinese-Indonesians community in Indonesia. For this study, three main respondents were acquired who are all Chinese-Indonesian females, aged 19-22 years old. They were asked to fill in the questionnaire to value their preferences regarding the language usage as well as the history of the respondents’ language acquisition and proficiency specifically on the Mandarin language which is considered as the respondents’ supposedly heritage language. Besides the questionnaire, the respondents were also interviewed which then transcribed and analyzed thoroughly to examine the significance of the language shift in each of the participants’ language domains; family, institutional and social domains. The results of this study has proven that there are several inducing language shift factors explicitly occurred in Indonesia, mostly the Capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, such the lack of culture exposure, learning obligation, and language domain, the confusion over own ethnolinguistics identity, the socially and politically indigenous oppression, and finally the traumatic events that was experienced by the present nor past generations of Chinese-Indonesians.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Werhoru D. and Jhon A. (2018). Language Shift in Chinese-Indonesian Community. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 321-326. DOI: 10.5220/0010007300002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={David Werhoru and Alex Jhon},
title={Language Shift in Chinese-Indonesian Community},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={321-326},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010007300002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Language Shift in Chinese-Indonesian Community
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Werhoru D.
AU - Jhon A.
PY - 2018
SP - 321
EP - 326
DO - 10.5220/0010007300002917