MIXED JAVANESE IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ UTTERANCES AS A SYMPTOM OF LANGUAGE SHIFT (POLITENESS AND EMBODIMENT PERSPECTIVES)

Abstract

Javanese as the biggest local language in Indonesia may lead to shift to mixed Indonesian and Javanese alternative speech level . This paper aims at finding out how Javanese is getting to shift to Indonesian and an alternative speech level. To investigate this phenomenon, I used DCT (Discourse Completion Task) and recording techniques to collect the data i.e the utterances produced by the English Department Students of Diponegoro University batch 2013/2014, whose mother tounge is Javanese. I used referential and distributional methods to analyze the data. The results indicate that the English Department Students’ utterances can be identified as congruent Javanese speech level, Indonesian, Indonesian mixed with Javanese items, Javanese mixed with Indonesian items, incongruent Javanese speech levels, and alternative Javanese speech levels. These result from some factors that can be studied from politeness and embodiement perspectives.