Abstract
This research intends to describe the newest survey on the language attitude of the Sundanese, West Java, Indonesia Urban Community against Sundanese, Indonesian, and foreign language. The methodology of the reserach is quantitative method. Although most of the people in West Java are Sundanese , most of them are multilingual. Therefore, the writer tries to find the language attitude of Sundanese toward Sundanese, Indonesia, and foreign language. Respondents involved in the research are 324 respondents living in Bogor city, 84 respondents living in Bandung city, and 92 respondents living in Bekasi city. The study seeks to discover how Sundanese people shift their language in their communication. Based on Keller’s theory (1968), language shift caused more by the emergence of the industry. The three cities are industrial area where people are possibly to choose certain language in communication. Furthermore, Cooper (1978) showed that the role of language became the lingua franca (in this case, including Indonesian) often urged the local language. The result of the research indicates that (1) the attitude of the Sundanese urban community in West Java to the Sundanese language is good category, because the average only reaches 64.11% . The language attitude of people in Bogor is the lowest among the three cities. (2) The language attitude of the Sundanese urban community in West Java to the Indonesian language is in fair category , because the average is only 56.19%. The lowest language attitude of urban community in West Java toward Indonesian language is Bekasi.(3) The attitude of the Sundanese urban community in West Java to foreign languages is in good category because the average reaches 69.85%. The highest language attitude toward foreign language is Bogor. Since this is the newest survey on language attitude on urban community in West Java, it will be very significant findings for those who are interested in multingual conditions in West Java, Indonesia.
Highlights
Sundanese people are one of the ethnic group in Indonesia which has Sundanese language as their mother tongue
Respondents involved in the research are 324 respondents living in Bogor city, 84 respondents living in Bandung city, and 92 respondents living in Bekasi city
The lowest language attitude of urban community in West Java toward Indonesian language is Bekasi.(3) The attitude of the Sundanese urban community in West Java to foreign languages is in good category because the average reaches 69.85%
Summary
Sundanese people are one of the ethnic group in Indonesia which has Sundanese language as their mother tongue. The Javanese, in addition to being able to speak Javanese (as their mother tongue), able to speak Indonesian as B2, and English as B3, some even Japanese, Dutch, and so on As multilingual speakers, it prone to misconduct by Sundanese speakers when using Indonesian language. Sundanese language spoken by the people of Indonesia, especially in the island of West Java. The study on language attititude in multicultural speakers in urban community in West Java is still limited. Sundanese language? (2) What is the attitude of the urban Sundanese towards the Indonesian language? (3) What is the attitude of the urban Sundanese towards foreign languages?
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