Social Contexts of Phonological Contrasts and Indexicality: Variability and Identity among Singkils

This paper makes an attempt to look at the relationship between linguistics variation and identity in Singkil, an Austronesian language spoken by the aboriginal speakers living dominantly in five districts namely Kuta Baharu,Simpang Kanan, Suro, Gunung Meriah and Singkil, which are administratively under Singkil regency of Aceh province, Indonesia. According to Ethnologue, Singkil is a dialect of Batak Alas-Kluet (btz). Variation displayed at all levels of language structure ranging from syntax to finegained features of pronunciation, provides one of the defining features of human language. Differences in variation may result from biological given, e.g. differences in laryngeal analogy and physiology among men, women and children causing different levels of fundamental frequency. Differences in variation may also arise on account of social patterning of behavior acquired as a result of a speaker’s regional socio-cultural and language background. These alternatives are consciously noticed by listeners and invariably used by speakers as a source of identity markers. Singkil speakers use these phonetic forms as marker and identity when they interact with other Singkil speakers, it can be seen clearly from the use of phoneme /f/ and /r/. The phoneme /f/ changes to

HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MODUL LARUTAN ELEKTROLIT DAN SIFAT KOLIGATIF LARUTAN BERBASIS STEM-PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN KIMIA

Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuasi eksperimen yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan hasil belajar mahasiswa antara pembelajaran modul larutan elektrolit dan sifat koligatif larutan berbasis STEM-Problem Based Learning dengan pembelajaran konvensional di FKIP Universitas Sriwijaya. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan pra tes, pos tes dan lembar observasi. Berdasarkan hasil uji hipotesis diperoleh nilai thitung sebesar 7,389 dan nilai ttabel sebesar 1,671. Berdasarkan hasil uji-t dapat disimpulkan thitung> ttabel yang berarti Ho ditolak dan Ha diterima. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada perbedaan hasil belajar mahasiswa antara pembelajaran modul larutan elektrolit dan sifat koligatif larutan berbasis STEM-Problem Based Learning dengan pembelajaran konvensional di FKIP Universitas Sriwijaya

Social Contexts of Phonological Contrasts and Indexicality: Variability and Identity Among Singkils

This paper makes an attempt to look at the relationship between linguistics variation and identity in Singkil, an Austronesian language spoken by the aboriginal speakers living dominantly in five districts namely Kuta Baharu,Simpang Kanan, Suro, Gunung Meriah and Singkil, which are administratively under Singkil regency of Aceh province, Indonesia. According to Ethnologue, Singkil is a dialect of Batak Alas-Kluet (btz). Variation displayed at all levels of language structure ranging from syntax to finegained features of pronunciation, provides one of the defining features of human language. Differences in variation may result from biological given, e.g. differences in laryngeal analogy and physiology among men, women and children causing different levels of fundamental frequency. Differences in variation may also arise on account of social patterning of behavior acquired as a result of a speaker's regional socio-cultural and language background. These alternatives are consciously noticed by listeners and invariably used by speakers as a source of identity markers. Singkil speakers use these phonetic forms as marker and identity when they interact with other Singkil speakers, it can be seen clearly from the use of phoneme /f/ and /r/. The phoneme /f/ changes to

Friends are friends are friends: a study of communication and meaning on Facebook

© 2016 Lesley ChampionAs the impact and capacity of online technologies grows, we are increasingly spending much of our lives communicating using social networking sites such as Facebook. These novel ways of interacting with the world present many avenues for research that challenge the way we think about communication and the role it plays in our lives. All communication is constructed and understood in relation to time and space, which are fused inseparably to form the context of social action. At the same time, online media are subject to a process of ‘context collapse’ (Marwick & boyd (2010) or ‘convergence’ (Rambe, 2013), where multiple and distinct contexts or audiences merge into a single group. These environments can and do destabilise traditional conceptualisations of time, space and the nature of communicative interactions. This study therefore, conceptualises Facebook primarily as a mediating artefact through which meanings can be created and communicated, rather than simply as a technological tool comprising a set of features or affordances. The aim of this research is to explore how Facebook users communicate with their ‘friends’ in such unstable and ever-changing environments. The research adopted a mixed methods approach, which involved the analysis of data from 230 online surveys and 9 interviews. Findings indicated that Facebook ‘friends’ can and do inhabit multiple spaces simultaneously, in particular, those that are both personal and professional. Importantly, despite the fact that participants felt very strongly that Facebook should offer a personal space and should not encroach on their professional lives, this was a conviction that many struggled to reinforce. The destabilising nature of this interactive communication environment resulted in participants feeling dragged into multiple digital and physical spaces simultaneously. This study concludes that Facebook is a source of tension: it creates a mediating and interactive environment that facilitates fluid and multimodal forms of communication between its users across multiple time-space zones simultaneously. It is also a site of struggle, in which participants attempt to resist a sense of ‘context collapse’ and ‘convergence’ within and between online and offline interactions. Further research into the nature of this struggle and how it is played out between other Facebook ‘friends’, and across other forms of technologically mediated communication environments, would be very valuable