SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES

Slang is one of the language styles used by young people, which is called Wakamono Kotoba in Japanese and Bahasa Gaul in Indonesian. One similar characteristic in wakamono kotoba (Japanese slang) and Bahasa Gaul (Indonesian’s slang) is the abbreviation. This research aims to compare Japanese and Ind...

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Main Authors: Shabella Widyastuti, Nuria Haristiani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 2023-06-01
Series:Jurnal Japanedu: Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Bahasa Jepang
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Online Access:https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/japanedu/article/view/57244/pdf
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description Slang is one of the language styles used by young people, which is called Wakamono Kotoba in Japanese and Bahasa Gaul in Indonesian. One similar characteristic in wakamono kotoba (Japanese slang) and Bahasa Gaul (Indonesian’s slang) is the abbreviation. This research aims to compare Japanese and Indonesian slang abbreviations by explaining their origins, processes, differences, and similarities. This study was collected based on written language from Pergikuliner and Taberogu sites from March until April 2023, each taking a maximum of 50 reviews per restaurant. The review was gathered from 10 restaurants each from Indonesian and Japanese sites, meaning there are 500 data from each site and 1000 reviews from both websites. Then, the author conducted the research by analyzing the abbreviation process with similarities and differences between the two languages. The results show 398 data on slang abbreviations in wakamono kotoba and 244 data on slang abbreviations in bahasa gaul. The abbreviation process in the Japanese language mainly happens with the abbreviation of sentences or phrases, following that is an abbreviation at the end of the word, the abbreviation of two or more moras, omissions at the end of each term, the abbreviation of three words in a sentence or phrases, and abbreviations formed from initial letters of each word. On the other hand, the abbreviation process in the Indonesian language mainly happens as an omission of the word’s part, followed by shortened words from a combination of letters, acronyms of letters, combining from two separate forms, and abbreviation as letter symbols. The similarity between the two languages is used identical types of abbreviations (acronyms and toujigo), have the abbreviation process from another language, and have the same pattern in the abbreviation of the end of words. While the differences are from letters or syllables, the objects that went through the abbreviation process, changed in form in the Japanese source and tended to use foreign languages in the Indonesian source.
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spelling doaj.art-82affd5519194ccba40b8188fd076a1e2024-02-27T12:16:23ZengUniversitas Pendidikan IndonesiaJurnal Japanedu: Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Bahasa Jepang2776-44782528-55482023-06-01812335https://doi.org/10.17509/japanedu.v8i1.57244SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCESShabella Widyastuti0Nuria Haristiani1Japanese Language Education Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, IndonesiaJapanese Language Education Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, IndonesiaSlang is one of the language styles used by young people, which is called Wakamono Kotoba in Japanese and Bahasa Gaul in Indonesian. One similar characteristic in wakamono kotoba (Japanese slang) and Bahasa Gaul (Indonesian’s slang) is the abbreviation. This research aims to compare Japanese and Indonesian slang abbreviations by explaining their origins, processes, differences, and similarities. This study was collected based on written language from Pergikuliner and Taberogu sites from March until April 2023, each taking a maximum of 50 reviews per restaurant. The review was gathered from 10 restaurants each from Indonesian and Japanese sites, meaning there are 500 data from each site and 1000 reviews from both websites. Then, the author conducted the research by analyzing the abbreviation process with similarities and differences between the two languages. The results show 398 data on slang abbreviations in wakamono kotoba and 244 data on slang abbreviations in bahasa gaul. The abbreviation process in the Japanese language mainly happens with the abbreviation of sentences or phrases, following that is an abbreviation at the end of the word, the abbreviation of two or more moras, omissions at the end of each term, the abbreviation of three words in a sentence or phrases, and abbreviations formed from initial letters of each word. On the other hand, the abbreviation process in the Indonesian language mainly happens as an omission of the word’s part, followed by shortened words from a combination of letters, acronyms of letters, combining from two separate forms, and abbreviation as letter symbols. The similarity between the two languages is used identical types of abbreviations (acronyms and toujigo), have the abbreviation process from another language, and have the same pattern in the abbreviation of the end of words. While the differences are from letters or syllables, the objects that went through the abbreviation process, changed in form in the Japanese source and tended to use foreign languages in the Indonesian source.https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/japanedu/article/view/57244/pdfabbreviationsonline reviewsslang languagesociolinguisticswritten language
spellingShingle Shabella Widyastuti
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SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
Jurnal Japanedu: Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Bahasa Jepang
abbreviations
online reviews
slang language
sociolinguistics
written language
title SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
title_full SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
title_fullStr SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
title_full_unstemmed SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
title_short SLANG ABBREVIATION IN JAPANESE AND INDONESIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE: ORIGINS, PROCESS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES
title_sort slang abbreviation in japanese and indonesian written language origins process similarities and differences
topic abbreviations
online reviews
slang language
sociolinguistics
written language
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