The power of names in a Chinese Indonesian family’s negotiations of politics, culture, and identities

Lie, Sunny; Bailey, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/17513057.2016.1216577

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“…A multilingual and multicultural nation, Malaysia is primarily comprised of the Malay, Chinese, and Indian ethnic groups. Each of these groups observes their own cultural practices in giving personal names (Cheng 2008;Lie & Bailey 2017). For instance, in the Chinese culture of Malaysia, the family name comes first and is followed by two given names.…”

Section: Background About the Telugu In Malaysiamentioning

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“…In the past, studies of indigenous naming have tended to focus on the implications of names and naming practices with regard to other issues. These include language planning and language shift (Florey & Bolton 1997;Makoni et al 2007), family naming practices (Becker 2009), kinship and individuality (Finch 2008;Roopnarine & Güven 2015;Smith 1985), kinship terms and its association with power or status (Lie & Bailey 2017), and cultural attitude towards personal names (Akinnaso 1981), and recently corpus-based name studies (Motschenbacher 2020). To the authors' knowledge, however, the association of name and naming practices to cultural schemas has not been as widely studied.…”

Section: Background About the Telugu In Malaysiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the wide variety of sources, some scholars have claimed that Telugu parents have "boundless" options when seeking a name for their child (Shijith & Sheker 2015). However, other researchers contend that the Telugu tend to select names they believe carry protective powers and will have long-term positive effects on the personality of the name-bearer (Lie & Bailey 2017;Sue & Telles 2007).…”

Section: The Meaning and Sources Of Telugu Namesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Names and Naming Practices of the Telugu in Malaysia

Shanmuganathan

Sinayah

Ramalingam

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Names and naming practices reflect the socio-cultural background of a community. The giving of names is therefore not merely an act of labelling but represents constructs of identity that reflect the collective self-representation of a community and its worldviews. This study examines the naming practices of the Telugu in Malaysia and investigates the morphological structure and the semantic properties of Telugu names. To accomplish those research goals, survey interviews were conducted with 288 respondents in four different Malaysian states. Using descriptive statistics, a narrative analysis of the survey responses was used. Six experts in the Telugu culture were then invited for a focus group discussion. Before the results of this analysis are presented, detailed information about the Telugu and their naming traditions are provided. As will be shown here, among the Telugu, name-giving is a sacred act that is performed during a traditional naming ceremony called the Barasala. During this ancient oral onomastic tradition, names are passed on from one generation to the next and ancestral blessings are bestowed. As this study reveals, the structure of the patronymic names given during this ceremony reflect the religious beliefs and cultural identity of the Telugu.

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Section: Background About the Telugu In Malaysiamentioning

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Names and Naming Practices of the Telugu in Malaysia

Shanmuganathan

Sinayah

Ramalingam

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“…All Chinese Indonesians who have adopted an Indonesian-sounding names, therefore, were still required to keep the records of their former Chinese names in any government related affairs (Lie & Bailey, 2017). Such historical record has inspired Ariani Darmawan, also a Chinese Indonesian filmmaker to immortalize the struggle and hardships that Chinese Indonesians, which is cinematically represented by Sugiharti Halim, regarding the choice of their Indonesian names.…”

Section: Indonesian Citizens Who Still Use Chinese Names and Who Wish To Change Their Names To Conform To Indigenous Indonesian Names Neementioning

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Sugiharti Halim (2008): A Cinematic Portrayal of Chinese Indonesian's Ambiguous Identity

Christina

2021

RAINBOW

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Sugiharti Halim (2008) provides a cinematic insight into the lives of Chinese Indonesians whose identities are perpetually labeled as liyan (other) in the eyes of the inlanders (pribumi). It narrates the story of Sugiharti Halim, a Chinese Indonesian girl, who struggles with her Indonesian sounding name which, instead of successfully assimilating her Chinese identity, makes her even more Chinese than before. This study aims to investigate the cinematic portrayal of Chinese Indonesian’s ambiguous identity as experienced by the female protagonist. The writer employs close textual analysis of the indie film and approaches the issue by the reading of cinematic codes (mise en scene) and the theoretical perspective of name giving developed by Watzlawik in 2016. The conflict highlited in this “indie” criticizes the position of Chinese filmmaker for being pigeoholed on the ground of their ethnicity as portrayed in most commercial films which put Chinese more as a marginalized group. Therefore, the study reveals that films have become a new means of politicizing the interest of certain ethnic group which somehow puts the Chinese Indonesians in their most vulnerable position. The study also concludes that independent films help the young Chinese filmmakers to reconnect with their Chinese heritage as they begin to pick up bits of their Chineseness which were previously miscontrued by the inherited ideals of the New Order regime.

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“…Wu Meiyi studied on the Chinese names in Indonesia, her research showed that the younger generation of Chinese Indonesians' names are far-reaching influenced by Indonesian culture, but the older generation of Chinese Indonesians' names still have strong Chinese elements [9]. Sunny Lie has the same view, she believed that names can reflect negotiation of larger-scale political and historical conditions [10]. Wu also pointed out that the Chinese Indonesians were the most likely to ask the beauty of meaning and the reflection of gender orientation for the names, much higher than those who asked for the other requirements for names.…”

Section: The Preferences and Tendencies In The Naming Of Chinesementioning

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Characters Selection in Transliteration of Chinese Indonesian Names

Xuanyi¹

2019

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

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The translation of names, especially the translation of celebrities' names, plays an important role both in Chinese language and culture. Therefore, when we translate other languages to Chinese, people's names need to be translated, linguistically using transliteration. In the process of translating Indonesian to Chinese, the author often encounters the problem of Chinese Indonesian names' translation (e.g. Tan Tek Ho), because there is no absolute standard in the field of name translation. Thus, the translated Chinese characters would be significantly different. For example, the transliterated name of Indonesian president Jokowi, it has at least two translations in Chinese with different characters. As the instrument, qualitative data analysis method is used in this research. The author aims to explore how to select Chinese characters and then to build a relatively reliable standard for Chinese Indonesian names transliteration through three aspects of analysis: the repetition rate of the same character in Chinese names, the characteristics of Chinese names and the characteristics of Chinese Indonesian names. The research finds out that selecting high-frequency characters, aesthetic meaning characters, gender-oriented characters and avoiding uncommon characters are the best way to transliterate Chinese Indonesian names from Latin to Chinese characters.

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The power of names in a Chinese Indonesian family’s negotiations of politics, culture, and identities

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Names and Naming Practices of the Telugu in Malaysia

Names and Naming Practices of the Telugu in Malaysia

Sugiharti Halim (2008): A Cinematic Portrayal of Chinese Indonesian's Ambiguous Identity

Characters Selection in Transliteration of Chinese Indonesian Names

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