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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorDr. Roselinde Supheert, Dr. Debbie Cole
dc.contributor.authorFitri Amalia Shintasiwi, .
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-25T17:01:57Z
dc.date.available2017-07-25T17:01:57Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/26349
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to understand the changes in language structures and function of Indonesians using Bahasa Indonesia in the Netherlands. Focusing on Indonesians who have lived in the Netherlands for more than ten years, this study analyses the context of communication culture based on the language style used in their communication. Initial ethnographic observations were followed by an online survey. Observations in two events organised by and for Indonesian diaspora communities revealed code-mixing and code-switching between Bahasa Indonesia and Dutch when Indonesians were interacting each other. They also revealed changes in directness in how Indonesians addressed each other in Bahasa Indonesia. 38 Indonesian speakers who have lived in the Netherlands for more than 10 years responded to an online questionnaire created to test the validity of these initial observations. The survey consisted of scenarios where participants were given options for responses that were more or less direct. 70 percent of respondents consistently chose the more direct utterances rather than the indirect ones. In open ended responses, they cited honesty and forthrightness as their reasons for doing so. The analyses concluded that Indonesians in the Netherlands tend to be more direct than Indonesians in Indonesia due to their adaptation to the new cultural norms of their Dutch community members. Thus, based on Hall (1976), they have shifted to using LCC (Low Communication Culture) and now express more explicit meaning through a direct style of communication. Furthermore, their changing performance of Bahasa Indonesia in a more direct style enables the construction of a new identity category, “Indonesians in the Netherlands”. Moreover, this process of constructing identity involves both performance and adequation or pursuit of sameness (Bucholtz & Hall, 2004; Goebel, 2015). The present study suggests further research regarding the use and functions of Bahasa Indonesia in different generations among overseas Indonesians.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
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dc.language.isoen
dc.titleHOME AWAY FROM HOME: SHIFTING LANGUAGE USE OF INDONESIANS IN THE NETHERLANDS
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordslanguage change, identity, directness, Indonesian diaspora, code-mixing
dc.subject.courseuuInterculturele communicatie


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