Socio-practical Factors Reflected in the Use of Indonesian in Multiethnic Communication
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Indonesian as a lingua franca immerses many elements of the social life of its users. This integration is so powerful that the components in the source language code may contain a mix of regional languages. Thus, this research examines the socio-practical construction factors reflected in people's language styles in multiethnic communication. A qualitative design with ethnographic communication epistemology was used in this research and involved participants consisting of 8 ethnicities. Researchers, as the main instrument, equip themselves by recording the results of observations and carrying out initial analysis in data cards while collecting data. Observatory participants are used to collect data by researchers being directly involved in recording, observing, and field recording activities both descriptively and reflectively. The research data was the utterances between speakers and interlocutors in multiethnic communication and was collected through recording, observation, and field notes, which are both descriptive and reflective. Data analysis has been carried out through the stages of activities, data reduction, with a focus on data selection with sociopragmatic parameters, data presentation, analysis based on the theory of critical discourse, and conclusion. The result showed that the socio-practical construction model of Indonesians in multiethnic communication considers social distance, language power, cultural values, and situational variables. This research implies that the context, speech event, and who is being spoken to with various linguistic and discourse markers affect the form of the speaker's speech in communication. Further research could discover the development of sociopragmatic theory in multiethnic communication if Sr and Sp use different politeness modes.
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408040772