The Politeness of Javanese Women in Social Interaction of Rewang Tradition

Prembayun Miji Lestari, Djatmika Djatmika, Sumarlam Sumarlam, Dwi Purnanto

2017

Abstract

The objective of the study was to analyze forms of language politeness from Javanese women in rewang tradition or helping others who have desire. It is a case study in Klaten Regency, Central Java by using a sociolinguistics approach that considers concept of Javanese culture. The data were in the forms of women’s utterances taken from their communication in a rewang activity. To get the data, observation by recording the talks and interview were used. The data was utterances of Javanese women assumed to contain Javanese politeness. The analysis refers to Spradley: domain, taxonomy, componential and culture topics. The findings show that forms of Javanese women politeness in the social interaction are performed by empan papan principles in the forms of 1) avoiding the use of taboo words or saru, 2) using euphemism or kurmat principles in the forms of nuwun sewu or sorry, matur nuwun or thank you, nyuwun tulung or kindly help and (3) using speech based on social status or andhap asor principles.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lestari P., Djatmika D., Sumarlam S. and Purnanto D. (2017). The Politeness of Javanese Women in Social Interaction of Rewang Tradition.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 563-570. DOI: 10.5220/0007171005630570

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Prembayun Miji Lestari and Djatmika Djatmika and Sumarlam Sumarlam and Dwi Purnanto},
title={The Politeness of Javanese Women in Social Interaction of Rewang Tradition},
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={563-570},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007171005630570},
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 Politeness of Javanese Women in Social Interaction of Rewang Tradition
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Lestari P.
AU - Djatmika D.
AU - Sumarlam S.
AU - Purnanto D.
PY - 2017
SP - 563
EP - 570
DO - 10.5220/0007171005630570