Abstract
This article uses corpus linguistics methods and theories to study how the Sundanese depicted as people with courteous characters in a 2.9 million-word corpus of <i>Manglé</i>, a Sundanese magazine, published between 1958 and 2013. The study examines the usage patterns of Sundanese words denoting ‘courtesy’ and ‘discourtesy’ in the corpus by employing a mixed-method research design. Using the corpus software WordSmith Tools, the analysis of word frequency found that the courtesy category is lexically more diverse, i.e., containing more lexical units, than the discourtesy category. Besides, the courtesy lexemes are more frequently used than the discourtesy lexemes. Based on collocation analysis, the top three most frequent words signifying courtesy, i.e., SOMÉAH ‘nice and welcome’, MARAHMAY ‘cheerful’, and DARÉHDÉH ‘pleasant and friendly’, have the semantic preference of friendliness; social actions, states, and processes; and people. On the other hand, the semantic preference of the top three most frequent words signifying discourtesy, i.e., BAEUD ‘sullen’, JAMEDUD ‘surly’, and KURAWEUD ‘surly’, is predominantly unfriendly traits. The analyses demonstrate that Sundanese people in the corpus of <i>Manglé</i> are constructed as a friendly community portrayed to have some personality traits such as favorable, friendly, and welcoming, particularly to visitors and strangers. The result seemingly constructs the stereotype of the Sundanese ethnic group that is commonly known among the other ethnic groups in Indonesia as respectful and friendly people.
Highlights
With the population of 36,701,670, Sundanese is the second-largest ethnic group in Indonesia, predominantly living in the western part of Java Island
Based on beliefs arising from a culture that constructs the ethnic stereotypes, the present paper studies the identity of the Sundanese community from a corpus linguistics perspective, by investigating words used in media that depict the Sundanese people concerning courteous and discourteous characters
Based on the previous research, the present study aims to study the stereotype of Sundanese people using the corpus-based approach by examining the lexemes denoting ‘courtesy’ and ‘discourtesy’ in the available Sundanese corpus, i.e., the corpus of the Sundanese magazine Manglé, published between 1958 and 2013
Summary
With the population of 36,701,670, Sundanese is the second-largest ethnic group in Indonesia, predominantly living in the western part of Java Island. Indonesia itself is the third populous country in Asia after China and India and home to 1,331 ethnic groups, according to the 2010 Population Census. It makes the country among the world's most diverse. Among the other ethnic groups, Sundanese people are stereotypically recognized to be friendly, warm, and polite. In line with that, Sampeliling claimed that the Sundanese people's stereotype is gentle, polite, respectful, and brave [2]. Based on beliefs arising from a culture that constructs the ethnic stereotypes, the present paper studies the identity of the Sundanese community from a corpus linguistics perspective, by investigating words used in media that depict the Sundanese people concerning courteous and discourteous characters
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