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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research is conducted to find out the terms of address preferences and the role of Chineseness
of two Chinese Surabayanese. Research questions include: (1) What terms of address do the
informants of Chinese Indonesians in Surabaya prefer to be addressed at home, at the office, and in
public places? (2) Why do they prefer to be addressed that way? (3) How do their terms of address
preferences show their Chineseness as Chinese Indonesians? In order to find out the answers of
those research questions, I interviewed two informants of Surabayanese Chinese Indonesians, one
(male) is from the totok family and the other one (female) is from the peranakan family. I used
qualitative approach combined with semi-structured interview and open-ended interview. To
analyze the findings, I use thematic analysis to make it easier to sort the data. The findings of this
research showed that the family’s background played the important role in the terms of address
preferences. The one from totok family still maintained Chinese terms of address, while the one
from peranakan family had already abandoned the Chinese terms of address. However, both of
them thought that it was not important to show their Chineseness in public. Thus, both of them
preferred to be addressed with neutral terms of address by non-Chinese Indonesians.
Keywords: term of address, chineseness, Chinese Indonesian