Tamtomo, Kristian (2019) The creation of monolanguaging space in a krámá Javanese language performance. LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY, 48 (1). pp. 95-124. ISSN 0047-4045

Abstract

Recent approaches to multilingualism, such as translanguaging, emphasize
the porous, fluid, and hybrid nature of language use. This article intends to
show, through an example of a local language debating competition in
Central Java, that culturally emblematic performances tend to create monolanguaging spaces, due to their monolingual focusing on certain language
varieties that are iconic to local ethnolinguistic identity. Monolanguaging
spaces are language ideological spaces in which speakers project an idealized
performance of their ethnolinguistic identity. Ethnographic observation
shows that the performance of monolanguaging spaces involves the erasure
of speakers’ multilingual repertoires and translanguaging practices, in
accordance to the language ideology surrounding the hegemonic prestigious
language variety and in accordance to the local norms of status or power-based
social interaction. Attending to monolanguaging spaces reveal it as a performance accomplished through discursive work and power relations, involving
the misrecognition of its connection and dissonance to multilingual repertoires and practices

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Language ideology, erasure, translanguaging, monolanguaging space, performance, ethnolinguistic identity, Javanese
Subjects:	Komunikasi > Komunikasi
Divisions:	Fakultas ISIP > Ilmu komunikasi
Depositing User:	Editor UAJY
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2020 13:21
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2020 13:21
URI:	https://repository.uajy.ac.id/id/eprint/22866

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