The Communicative Accommodation of Chinese in Singkawang

Mitra Wulandari

2017

Abstract

In multilingual societies, each speaker should be able to choose the appropriate language when communicating with others. This research aims to describe the language contact between Chinese society and local residents in Singkawang as a town where three big and strong ethnics lived. One of the ways to understand cultural and language integration is by using communication accommodation approach of Howard Giles who divided it into convergence and divergence. The data were collected by using observation method by applying uninvolved conversation observation technique. This research results in a conclusion that the Chinese people in Singkawang tend to decrease and increase their communicative distance. They are able to accommodate their Khek language with Malay or Indonesian language to gain social acceptance and avoid an ethnic conflict. They keep their mother tongue as well as identity and adapt well.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wulandari M. (2017). The Communicative Accommodation of Chinese in Singkawang.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 618-621. DOI: 10.5220/0007172006180621

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Mitra Wulandari},
title={The Communicative Accommodation of Chinese in Singkawang},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={618-621},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007172006180621},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Communicative Accommodation of Chinese in Singkawang
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Wulandari M.
PY - 2017
SP - 618
EP - 621
DO - 10.5220/0007172006180621