Language And Dialect In Indonesian Culture

The background of urgency of the research

Like we all know Indonesia is one of the countries that has many cultures, religions, and rich of languages. Indonesia also one of the largest country in the world. There are so many regions and it has a lot of cultures, languages and traditions. Society and languages cannot be separated. Because with language we can communicate with each other’s. There must be a relationship between language and region which they live, and every region in Indonesia has a different dialects and it makes us interest to make a research about the differences of dialect and how they pronounce the word. It belongs to our material “Style and Styling”. In this assignment 2, we try to analyze two people from different regions,

A good starting point is to say that “style refers to a way of doing something” (Coupland,2007:1). When we use the term “style”, the idea is to capture how one does all of these things that is an aesthetic dimension is evoked: someone sings “beautifully”, someone’s handwriting “has style”. It is important to realize, however that styles never come alone. They are always part of a system where several other styles exist and in which it makes sense to see one style as different from another. Consequently, style refers to distinctive way of doing something as compared to others, a reason why it is “seldom useful to examine a single style in isolation” (Irvine, 2001:22) since each style partly shapes itself in relation to neighbouring others. “Styling” may be said to relate to ‘Style” as speaking does to speech. Speech and style are then the products, or sediment, of the preceding interaction; the interaction itself, in turn, may be seen as ‘styling/speaking-in-action. A number of current authors have also identified and spectacular acts of styling designed to attract attention and invite others to decipher the special effect they create in the situation-on-hand (Coupland,2001; Rampton, 2001a,2006). As our understanding, Styling is process of formation of the style. For example, if we lived in Java our style will change into javanese with a little bit “medhok” sound. And we live in Borneo

Dialect itself as one of the phenomena of language diversity, it is one of language diversity which is come from the level of the speakers. The understanding of dialect itself is still difficult to define with certainty because of the difficulty of finding the limits that can distinguish between accents and dialect itself. According to Wardhaugh (2006: 40) he state that the understanding of dialect is a subordinate from the variation of the language itself. While the accent, as a part of the dialect, it is common in the regional dialect. Wardhaugh also explains more about the accent (2006: 46) as a pronunciation that has been received.

The pronunciation that has been received by the community became one of the cause of the variations in the sounds of languages. It caused by the language habit that arise and develop in community unconsciously introduced into pronunciation in Bahasa that is not as it should be. In this mini research,

Limitation

The limitation of our mini research

This mini research is limited to the following problem:

We only analyzed from two people around us. They are from East Java (Malang) and one from East Kalimantan (Samarinda). It means, we just analyze two people from different region in Indonesia. We know that every different region must have different dialects. We cannot conclude that all people from Kalimantan have dialects like that and so did the people from Java. If we