32.983, Books: Bòsò Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language: Yannuar

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:39:39
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Bòsò Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language: Yannuar

 


Title: Bòsò Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese
reversed language 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/boso-walikan-malangan-structure-and-development-of-a-javanese-reversed-language 


Author: Nurenzia Yannuar

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933271 Pages: 365 Price: Europe EURO 38


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the structure and development of Bòsò Walikan
Malangan (‘Malang-style reversal language’), a word-reversal practice in the
East Javanese variety of Malang. Known as Walikan, it incorporates reversed
words originating from Malangan Javanese, Malangan Indonesian, and other
languages into a Malangan Javanese structure. The results presented here were
drawn from extensive fieldwork, including 725 Walikan words collected from
more than one hundred speakers of Walikan and a substantial number of written
Walikan materials observed in the media and public areas.

The research discusses Walikan in relation to other youth languages to
determine how it resembles and differs from them. Walikan is shown to have
developed from a secretive slang to a widespread marker of shared identity,
used in general communication across various speech areas. A similar
development occurred in youth languages of Europe and Africa.

This book describes the phonology and phonotactics of Malangan Javanese and
Indonesian as the background against which the reversal rules and phonological
system of Walikan are explained. It is shown that the underlying segments
generally undergo total reversal while conforming to the phonological and
phonotactic rules of Malangan Javanese and Indonesian.

In addition, the sociolinguistic domain of Walikan is investigated. It is
demonstrated that the reversed forms used by different groups of speakers are
dynamic and changing: male speakers show more confidence than female speakers
in reporting their fluency, and there are phonological differences between age
groups.

Finally, the study shows that Walikan enjoys on-going popularity in different
types of media such as songs, local TV news, YouTube videos, various digital
communication platforms, and newspaper columns. Walikan is also found to be an
important feature in the current linguistic landscape of Malang, East Java.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Javanese (jav)
                     Maleng (pkt)


Written In: English  (eng)

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