Menanggapi Pujian dalam Bahasa Jawa di Semarang

Abstract

Compliment response to a speaker is not a simple task. It often makes speaker in a problematic position among receivers either avoiding disagreement or refraining from implying self-praise. The interesting is that people in every culture background getting involved in this dilema try to find out a way that is able to minimize the potential of making inconvenience by proposing several strategies. The strategies are mainly determined by the culture of the speaker. In Javanese culture, people believe that the good way in establishing relationship with others is being modesty. Javanese have special term for this act, namely andhap ashor. This article aims in explaining the choice of strategies by Javanese. This will reveal the way of Javanese think. The data were collected by the use of observation supported by recording and note-taking technique, and interview. The results shows there are three macro strategies, namely agrreement, nonagreement and request interpretation. These three, then, are broken down into several micro strategies. The choice is based on the obedience to the politeness principles in Javanese circumtances

Contrastive Analysis of Complimenting Speech Acts in Japanese and Javanese

“…Such compliment utterances are a form of showing respect to the interlocutor. In relation to this, Chandra (2020) states that Javanese society generally very easy in giving compliments to their interlocutors. This is because Javanese people view compliments to build relationships among members of their community.…”

Macro and Micro Strategies to Praise and Respond on Facebook

“…In this case, Pomerantz (1978) states that when a person must respond to a speech act of praise, the speech partner is in a dilemma because the speech partner should not refuse praise but on the other hand must not show an attitude of praising himself (self-praise). In Western cultures, the most response to a compliment is to accept it, while in Asian cultures, people tend to avoid praising themselves (Chandra et al, 2019). Referring to Leech's (1993) politeness principle in the context of eastern society, there is a contradiction between the maxim of agreement and the maxim of simplicity.…”

“…The most frequent occurrences of praise adjectives in a row are nice, good, lovely, beautiful, great, neat, wonderful, delicious, pretty, new, smart, gorgeous, not bad, clever, bright, brilliant, excellent, fantastic, fine, cute, classy, cool, impressive. Furthermore, the discussion of the praise response resulted in three categories or types of praise responses: accept, reject, and deflect/evade. Chandra, Marsono, and Suhandano (2019) state that responding to a compliment is not simple. Responding often puts the speaker in a difficult position, between avoiding rejection and self-praise.…”

Variasi Dialek dalam Budaya Jawa Di Kabupaten Tangerang (Sebuah Kajian Dialektologi)

“…Oleh sebab itu, peneliti merasa perlu meneliti variasi fonologis dan leksikal di tempat tersebut. Penelitian yang hampir sama tentang ungkapan pujian dalam bahasa Jawa khususnya daerah semarang pernah dilakukan oleh (Chandra, Marsono, & Suhandano, 2019) dalam kajiannya penulis mencoba meneliti tentang bagaiamna cara merespon pujian yang diterima. Terkadang saat menanggapi sebuah pujian petutur sering kurang merasa nyaman pada mitra tutur sehingga perlu mencari bagaiman acara merespon pujian tersebut agar tidak terkesan sombong.…”