The Ordinariness of Code-meshing in the Indonesian Linguistic Landscapes

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ID21707683
AuthorsSetiono Sugiharto (0000-0001-9435-5264, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume22
Issue2
Pages404-412
Publication date2022-09-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1410-5691 • E-ISSN: 2580-5878
PublisherSanata Dharma University (PUBLISHER • ID)
DOI10.24071/joll.v22i2.4802
OpenAlexW4297154475
LanguageEN
References cited14

Code-meshing as a strategic linguistic practice has been considered a rarity in a high-stake writing practice (e.g. academic writing). Studies in composition scholarship have demonstrated that such a practice needs arduous intellectual endeavors and extra rhetorical efforts to be realized. That is, code-meshing requires an exceptionally high linguistic adeptness, language awareness, and rhetorical sensitivity in order to be performed effectively. As such, the products of code-meshing in scholarly writing are often seen as a marked form of textual realization. This article shows that while strenuous struggles are needed to practice code-meshing in academic writing (i.e. high-stake translingual practice), such a practice can be performed as mundane, ordinary, unremarkable, and relaxed activities (i.e. low-stake translingual practice) in linguistic landscapes or signage displayed in public places. Illustrations of the code-meshed texts in the latter case will be provided, and then examined to account for their ordinariness. In light of the vibrant low-stake translingual practice, I shall develop an important notion of grassroots performativity to suggest the everydayness of quotidian language practices enacted by multilingual language users in their own community

Grassroots · Indonesian · Linguistics · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Programming language · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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