Ethnicity and Multilingualism

Group 2 :

Galih Depri Lenggana (1002727)

Hanifa Muslima (1006322)

Liuthfi Rahinal Amanat (1002740)

Novia Mayasari (1002743)

Syarifuddin (1002699)

Our discussions….

• Ethnicity and Multilingualism

• Code-Switching in German

• Ethnology

• Language Contact and Code-Switching

• Examples

• Question and Answer Session

Luthfi rahinal amanat

Definition of Ethnicity

• The terms ethnicity and ethnic group are derived from the Greek word

• ἔθνος ethnos, normally translated as "nation".

• The terms refer currently to people thought to have common ancestry who share a distinctive culture.

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• ethnicity is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture (often including a shared religion) and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy

Ethnicity in Language use

• The language that is deemed as a Nationalist Symbol

• Based from racial, culture or family origin

Continued…

• Be the major badge of ethnicity – that is racial, cultural and family origin

Multilingualism

• Individual Ability

–Bilingual

–Multilingual

• Mother tongue (Vernacular)

Continued…

• L1 First Language

• L2 Second Language» Compound Bilingual

» Co-Ordinate Bilingual

SYARIFUDDIN

Code Switching

- Definition

Romaine’s (1989: 112)

- Tag switching

- Intersentential switch

- Intrasentential switch

Du and Sie

- Differentiate singular and plural

By : Hanifa Muslima

WHAT IS ETHNOLOGY ?

• Greenberg :

The science that analyzes and compares human cultures, as

in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural

anthropology.

• Cambridge Online Dictionaries :

The comparative and historical study of different societies and

cultures.

• Merriam Webster Online Dictionary :

A science that deals with the division of human beings into

races and their origin, distribution, relations, and

characteristics .

The article : Actually, Chinese May Not Be The Mother

Tongue by Sunny Goh represents the 3 different views of

Chinese language in Singapore :

HONG KONG CHAT ‘MIX’

• Based on the script on page 78 about ‘Mix’, the blend of

English and Cantonese heard in Hongkong (mostly used by

among young people to gain popularity).

There are some points that show the ‘Mix’ and code switching

involved in the chat:

I. The uses of ‘la/lar’ which are marked for solidarity

II. There are some direct interferences from Chinese :

a) ‘granny number 8’ denotes a ‘nosy’ person

b) ‘shooting arrows’ is a Chinese idiom for a personal attack

c) ‘GER’ is an English spelling of the Chinese word for ‘only’.

NOVIA MAYASARI

Languange Contact and Code-Switching

• Languages don't exist in isolation. Rather, they are used by speech communities whose members interact with one another as well as with members of other speech communities.

• Language contact occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact.

• Language contact occurs in a variety of phenomena, including borrowing, interference and code-switching.

• The term interference refers to the influence of one language (or variety) on another in the speech of bilinguals who use both languages.

• Borrowing is a process of word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language.

• code-switching is the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation.

GALIH DEPRI

Example of Code Switching

Singlish:

- You know what happen lah. Fine. (='you know what happened? I got fined.')

- Otherwise, how can be considered Singaporean ah?

English-Indonesian:

- Nice to meet you, my name is John, boleh sayaduduk di sini?

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• Others

- Inilah yang mendongkrak perekonomian kitasekarang ini, dan insya Allah growth itu akanmenjadi lebih sustain.

- Kalau dia sudah menunjukkan rasa cintanya, go ahead, jangan malu-malu kucing.

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• A: Maaf mas, boleh saya duduk di sini?

B: Oh silahkan mba.

A: Loh, Deni.?

B: Ah, Yanti, kemana aja lu? Baru sekarang gualiat lu lagi?

A: Ada aja nih, biasa lah gua lagi sibukngurusin kerjaan……..

Question Please….