Cultural Development through Language Styles and Expression of Teenage Girls Identity in Indonesian Teen lit Novel Me Versus High Heels by Maria Ardelia

Redyanto Noor,Rukma Kawentar,Arido Laksono,Hadiyanto Hadiyanto,Maryono Maryono,Budi Warsito

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20187314019

Abstract

In Indonesian teen lit novels, the lifestyle of teenage girls can be interpreted from their way and style of communication, namely the way and style of using language. From the many means of self-disclosure as anevidence of the very distinctive existence of teenager is the language. For teenager, language is not just a communication tool serving to achieve understanding, but also as a symbol of identity: education, social status, economic status, hobby, groups, communities, and social environment. In a teenage social environment, the language determines the process, type, and form of interaction-communication that affects the acceptability or social arbitrariness. As a result, each individual teenager strives to adjust his or her use of “gaul” (slang) language to achieve the acceptability.

Highlights

Cultural development defines the style of communication and the way a member of society behaves
The article on language style and expression reveals the identity of teenage girls in preserving values, norms and social heritage which later develops the awareness towards low carbon use, In the novel, of the many indicators that most clearly show the character's personality is the way and style of communication
In Me Versus High Heels, the language of dialog between the characters does not indicate the social stratification of its speakers, either from intonation elements, syntactic synthesis, semantic meaning, or language style

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Introduction

Cultural development defines the style of communication and the way a member of society behaves. The behavior involves awareness toward the surrounding environment where a person lives. It requires responsibilities and sense of belonging upon the sustainability of human-beings. The article on language style and expression reveals the identity of teenage girls in preserving values, norms and social heritage which later develops the awareness towards low carbon use, In the novel, of the many indicators that most clearly show the character's personality is the way and style of communication. Every teenager strives to adapt his or her language style to the distinctive language of teenagers to achieve acceptance in their social circles, in order to escape the predictions of "kuper", "norak", "culun", or "kutukupret"

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