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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelChinese descent in Indonesia especially the third
generation who stay in Java use Indonesian rather than
their own languages: Mandarin, Hokkien, or Cantonese.
In the use of the Indonesian language, particularly in
Central and some parts of East Java, Chinese descent
often insert the Javanese words.
In this study, the writer conducts the
investigation on the flow of the Javanese words used by
Chinese descent in Indonesian in terms of their parts
of speech, denotative meaning, and derivational
construction.
The informants are eight students of Petra
University who come from different towns of East Java.
In addition, they have stayed in Surabaya for almost
four years. The data are collected by recording the
conversations they make and making a transcription of
the conversations.
From the recording, the Javanese words, are
identified with their parts of speech, denotative
meaning as their use in Javanese and Indonesian,
followed up with the analysis on their derivational
constructions.