Adolescent social media interaction and authorial stance in Indonesian teen fiction

Bibliographic Data

ID6174835
AuthorsDwi Noverini Djenar (0000-0001-5573-1589, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume15
Issue1
Pages165-165
Publication date2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1411-2272 • E-ISSN: 2407-6899
PublisherWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17510/wjhi.v15i1.109
OpenAlexW2012948564
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

This article examines representations of adolescent social media interaction in two Indonesian teen novels to show how adolescent communication styles are typified. It is argued that public discourse on the potential danger of social media interaction is resounded in the novels. The article demonstrates that the authors of both novels take a similar moral stance on the issue of social media but use different rhetorical strategies for indexing that stance. Both draw on the social values of registers to communicate the stance. In Online addicted, standard Indonesian is used in narration to convey an authoritative voice and a stern moral tone, while the gaul register indexes an alignment with favourable aspects of the protagonist’s character. In Jurnal Jo online, gaul is similarly given a positive value by virtue of its juxtaposition with the Alay register. In this novel, gaul is the preferred, standard register. In both novels, there is a strong orientation toward “standardness

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Indonesian · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Register (sociolinguistics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Stern · Tone (literature · Value (mathematics · Virtue · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Islamic Finance and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Media and Politics

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