Contemporary Javanese Youth in Short Stories

Meinarni Susilowati

2018

Abstract

High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifies new dimensions of their language. They challenge existing values, social categories and ideologies through their use of vernacular. This may project the contesting sociocultural situations which can stimulate newly deployed contemporary Javanese youth’s identity. Therefore, investigating how young people’s practices across spaces and the ways these practices are connected to local places or neighbourhoods is significant to do. This multi-dimension research which combined sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology gathered the data from short stories on two Javanese magazines published in 2017-2018. Narrative sequences from the stories were treated as the sociolinguistic landscapes which mirrored the constellations of sociocultural constructions experienced by the youth. The analysis revealed that the youth’s life was projected within the academic contexts which reflected the urban atmosphere; romance was vividly told in metropolitan settings, as imagined community. Interestingly, digital literacy became the essential part of the youth’s interactions which essentially upgraded the role of Javanese into global social networking. These implicate the pivotal roles of multilingualism awareness and digital literacy language on the youth’s communication.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Susilowati M. (2018). Contemporary Javanese Youth in Short Stories.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 641-647. DOI: 10.5220/0009913706410647

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Meinarni Susilowati},
title={Contemporary Javanese Youth in Short Stories},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={641-647},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009913706410647},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Contemporary Javanese Youth in Short Stories
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Susilowati M.
PY - 2018
SP - 641
EP - 647
DO - 10.5220/0009913706410647