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The creation of monolanguaging space in a krámá Javanese language performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2018

Kristian Tamtomo
Kristian Tamtomo*
Affiliation:
Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Address for correspondence: Kristian Tamtomo Department of SociologyUniversitas Atma Jaya YogyakartaCampus V, Jl. Babarsari 6 Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesiakristian_tamtomo@staff.uajy.ac.id
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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. (Language ideology, erasure, translanguaging, monolanguaging space, performance, ethnolinguistic identity, Javanese)*

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Language in Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 95 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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I presented a draft of this article at the Sixth International Symposium on the Languages of Java graciously organized by Tom Conners and Jozina Vander Klok at Dian Nuswantoro University, Semarang in May 2017. I thank Zane Goebel for encouraging me to develop the article for publication, Joseph Purwoko and two anonymous reviewers for their comments, and the journal editor and copy editor for proof reading.

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