Language and Power among Language Speaking Communities in North of Papua, Indonesia

The article aims at describing the interrelated factors between language and power among language speaking communities in Papua, Indonesia. It focuses on the connection between language use and unequal relation among language speaking communities in West Papua, Indonesia, especially among Biak, Wand...

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Published in:Researchers world - journal of arts science and commerce 2020-01, Vol.XI (1), p.1-8
Main Authors: Arwam, Hendrik, (Indonesia), Yusuf W. Sawaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Christianity
Community
Cultural factors
Ecology
Endangered languages
Influence
Language
Language diversity
Language shift
Language usage
Linguistics
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Multilingualism
Political power
Power
Social networks
Social structure
Sociolinguistics
Speaking
Speech
Speech communities
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Summary:The article aims at describing the interrelated factors between language and power among language speaking communities in Papua, Indonesia. It focuses on the connection between language use and unequal relation among language speaking communities in West Papua, Indonesia, especially among Biak, Wandamen and Waropen speaking groups and other smallsize speech communities. In terms of ecology of language in Papua, the diverse linguistic situation is equal to the diversity of language speech communities in different ecological environment. Besides, the diversity of languages is also contributed by the diversity of nonlinguistic factors such as imbalances in economic, social, politic, and cultural powers. This condition creates unequal power among language speaking communities living closed to each other that has a connection to language use. Language use provides evidence between language and power between more dominant speech communities and less dominant ones. Thus, this creates sociolinguistic phenomena such as multilingualism, lingua franca, language shift, and language endangerment.
ISSN:2231-4172
2229-4686
2229-4686
DOI:10.18843/rwjasc/v11i1/01