Londokampung^s Preference of Acculturation Strategies Represented through The Language Choice Farah Anjanillah, Sailal Arimi
Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada
farah.anjanillah[at]mail.ugm.ac.id, sailal_arimi[at]ugm.ac.id
Abstract
In this globalization era, there are many sociolinguists who put vast interests in exploring the issue about a diaspora or a group of people undertaking a transnational dispersion. Migrating transnationally might lead the diaspora to a tension for accommodating their languages and cultures with the host community, so that they might coexist. From this phenomenon, the researchers of this study were attracted to delve Londokampung^s preference of acculturation strategies to live in Surabaya, Indonesia. To obtain this goal, the researchers implemented Berry^s acculturation strategies theory (1992). The parameter used to uncover the preference of acculturation strategies is the language choice. Hence, this study also employed Fishman^s tenet (1972) on the domains of language choice. Pertaining to the design, this study adopted a qualitative case study. Additionally, this study analyzed the spoken data demonstrating Londokampung^s language choice in the family and friendship domain. Those data were collected from Londokampung Youtube channel. The results of the study exhibit that Londokampung as an Australian diaspora prefers to adopt an integration strategy to acculturate in Surabaya. This is because he appears to still maintain to use English as an identity projection in the family domain. Notwithstanding, he also seems to use Javanese and Indonesian language in the friendship domain as a sign of blending with the host society. That sort of language choice is possibly underlain by numerous factors such as the participant, group membership, linguistic repertoire, topic and function of the interaction, degree of formality, setting, social distance, and non-participating audience factor.
Keywords: acculturation strategies, language choice, diaspora, sociolinguistics.
