My Participation in The 2nd International Seminar of Trans-disciplinary Linguistics (ISTL)

Name tag and Program Book of ISTL

One of my goals as academician is sending my research to conference/seminar. For me, joining seminar is a challenge to prove my commitment to write our ideas until I finish it. Seminar is the place to learn from other expert about current trends and findings in the field I study. And the other important thing is I build networks among students and academician of Linguistics. In the mid of 2014, actually I missed the date of Conaplin (Conference of Applied Linguistic) at UPI because I forgot the date and also didn’t have any idea to write. I also couldn’t continue my paper for seminar in Malang due to hectic schedule for SSEAYP 41^st training and part time jobs. Thus, I promise to myself that I should put my full attention to the next seminar.

I joined the seminar with my class mate, Febri Hermawan. Because the topic is about the linguistic role for other studies, we took the topic of language and technology entitled “Anthropomorphism in Indonesian Online Newspaper about Information and Communication Technology”. Shortly, it discussed about metaphors with human characteristic that are attached to the description of IT product such as hand phone, internet provider, social media, etc. The research was aimed at identifying the words that classified as anthropomorphism based on Ulmann’s theory on anthropomorphism metaphor (1977) and revealing the functions of anthropomorphism in the texts. Anthropomorphic metaphor is the expressions of inanimate objects referring to human and its part, human senses, and human passion. The corpus data were collected from newspaper websites of as tekno.kompas.com in 2013-2014. The research finding showed that the anthropomorphism in ICT were reffered to human body, human attitude, human activity, human sense and human interpersonal relationship. The research also revealed the functions of anthropomorphic metaphor, which are for the communicative and persuasive purposes, for shapping the readers’ perspective for refilling the gap of vocabularies in ICT. These sentences are my abstract. J

I tried to propose my second abstract. Actually I was not so sure since the research need long time to finish. But then, thank God, the second abstract is also accepted. I need the help from my classmate also, Enggar Mulyajati. I wrote about linguistic anthropology. The title is “Javanese Lexicon of Roof Tile Industries in Pringsewu District: An Anthropology Linguistics Study.” This study was aimed at identifying the lexicons and describing the knowledge of traditional roof tile industry in Javanese culture through the lexicons. This qualitative study was conducted in Pringsewu District of Lampung Province by selecting seven informants from seven different Traditional Roof Tile Industries. Data were collected by conducting field observation, interview and field notes. Data collected were analyzed by using the anthropology linguistics approach from Duranti (1997), Salzmann (1998) and Ottenheimer (2013).The findings showed that the lexicon of Traditional Roof Tile Industry in Javanese Language could classified in terms of material, equipment, activity, and type of roof tile. Those lexicons reflected the knowledge system of Javanese culture based on adaptation to nature and development of technology. The findings also revealed that there were variations of lexicon that refer to some concepts that are varied in seven areas of roof tile industries.

The full paper will be compiled in Prosiding with ISBN, as the committee said. These papers are warming up for me to be really involved in linguistic world. My expectation is simple, I want to write paper that is tangibly contributive to society, and that is more than additional library collection. J

Hello, good morning January 2015.

2014 is the year with a lot of fruitful moments, inspiring people, and unpredictable situation. I learned a lot how to stay humble, appreciative, motivated, and religious. I also try to break the limit, stay positive and think that “I can do it”. As I am growing older, many things in this year I NEED to achieve.

1. Getting more helpful and closer to my Mother and whole family. I realize that I’m the youngest in family that’s growing older. I played the role later as the leader in my family as now I live with my Mom. I should know and be sensitive towards the problems faced by my family and know how to solve it. Being the youngest sometimes like a “prince” which everything is ready and handled by other persons in my family. I need to move to the higher and more responsible stage because sooner or later, I will build my own family as well as taking care of my Mom with my new family.
2. This year is the 2^nd and 3^rd semester for me in Linguistics Department of University of Indonesia as a student of master degree. I need to participate in conferences/seminars in Language, culture and education in Indonesia and other country. I need to have 3 times at minimum as presenter in Indonesia and once at minimum abroad.
3. I need to learn how to conduct research in language, social and cultural issues well, thus I need to join research project as research team/assistance in Department of Linguistics or other Departments where I can learn, practice, and contribute.
4. I need to have seminar of thesis proposal in the second half of 2015 with the contributive and applicative topic in Language and culture. I need to be the recipient of thesis scholarship from LPDP.
5. I need to be more financially independent live in Depok. In the 2^nd semester I need to cover my living allowance (kost, foods, books, transportation) by myself as in the first semester, and I need cover half of my tuition fee by myself. By the 3^rd semester, I need to be able to cover all tuition fee and living allowance in Depok. To achieve this, hopefully I get more class in LBI Depok/Salemba and can be accepted as English instructor in LIA/EF/ILP/TBI/Wallstreet/Schools.
6. I need to get channels for the institution I can work in after I graduate.
7. I need to learn again traditional dances from Indonesia. At least, I can teach the traditional dance I got from SSEAYP programs, such as Rampoe, Silat Minang, Bedana, Nandak Betawi, Orlapei Sahureka-reka, pangkur sagu and other dances I got from Nartana Budhaya. I can join Nartana Budhaya team for Cultural Mission to Europe on August 2015. It will spend a lot the energy, spirit, concentration, finance, and time. Hopefully, this can be come true.
8. I need to join more social contribution activities, in which I can contribute myself to society. One or two communities will be enough for me, whether it is in education, environment, child, etc.
9. I need to be happy and keep my friendship, brotherhood, and networks. My friends and my colleagues are my extended family.
10. Still, I need to be more religious, thankful, and remember to do charity.

Dear Allah, I hope those are what I need. If not, please guide me to the right track. I want to be the one that can help others with the talents, skills and good words that You gave me. I need to actualize myself because I need to have better life and job in the future, because I need to be the person that is good at academic life, social life, and religious life.

Resume of 2014

1. Moved on from SSEAYPSICK by coming back to have English part time jobs, such as teaching to Citra Bangsa School, STIKES Aisyah, private, and English Club SMAN 1 Gadingrejo.
2. Finished the Post Program Activity of SSEAYP as Project Officer for Gemintang40 (Handwashing practice at school/communities). Gemintang can finally be implemented in 17 provinces by 24 IPYs collaborated with 17 organization and has trained 860 kids. It has been reported by Kak Puji as alumnae representative to Cabinet Office of Japan
3. Started life as a Magister student of Linguistics in University of Indonesia. Finally, I have the opportunity to deepen my understanding in Language and cultures with inspiring professors, cooperative classmates, and cozy library. At first, I was quite pessimistic to enter this campus, because of the limited quota and also the urban life.
4. Started teaching English with more various students’ education background and age also with structured management system at Lembaga Bahasa International (LBI) UI Salemba and Depok. I learned a lot with the students and also the fellow teachers. I know how to catch train and walk fast in sweaty evening. J.
5. Published two papers at International Seminar of Trans-disciplinary Linguistics at UI entitled “Anthropomorphism in Indonesian Online Newspaper about Information and Communication Technology” and “Javanese Lexicon on Traditional Roof Industry in Pringsewu Region: An Anthropology Linguistic Study”. Finally, I can write and involve in linguistic forum.
6. Joined Narthana Budhaya dance club. I participated in UI Art War for dance competition. It was top 5 teams represented FIB. It was the first time I joined traditional dance competition with energetic teams and coach. The dance was about Srikandhi. Though we didn’t win, I was proud to dance it. I learned a lot to collect “vocabulary” of Indonesian dance.
7. Helped managing SSEAYP Program in Jakarta and Surabaya. I could be the reception committee for Country Program Indonesia in Surabaya, with other SSEAYP Alumnae. It was an honor to be the MC of Welcome Ceremony on Board and Welcome Dinner hosted by Ministry of Youth and Sport Republic of Indonesia, as well as to be LO for UNAIR institutional visit. I felt that all the committee worked very hard and showed their commitment to make it successful regardless the lacks and challenges we faced. I was also a committee for scheduling and managing the program for pre-departure training. It connected me a lot to more successful alumnae and other competent speakers.
8. Had more fun in friendship. A lot of friends in new campus, new places. I stay in Depok with my brother of SSEAYP from my batch, Adi Pratama and Wildan Mahendra. Full of laugh, care, and ideas with them. I had chances to meet my fellow PPY: Zed, Yanyan, Yuwii; SPY: Sufie, Sam, Sarah, Phoe bee; VPY: Thach, John, Giang, Anh. MaPY: Juza, Mala. J Local Youth: Mina. Apart from SSEAYP friend, I had amazing class with very nice classmate in Linguistics and UI. I lost one of my best friends here in Pringsewu due to acute meso-pharynx cancer. I realized that Donny had struggled to fight against this disease, but Allah loves him more.
9. Endless love from Allah, family, and friends for joyful moments as well as the challenging moments to make me more mature.

A Short Trip After Exam

Cimory – Not Aomori Japan

For the last three weeks my sleeping hour has changed due to the paper assignments that I have to finish on December. The assignments really put pressure on my brain. I don’t even care with my appointment to hang out or held some event. I am the type of person that demands perfection in the quality of tasks I made, so I need longer time to think and to find out good sources of reading. I saw that most of my friends were so stressful facing this final exam. Yes, because we are not undergraduate student anymore.

It was so dramatic that I finally can submit my paper for discourse study on Wednesday, and I feel my headache, shore throat, and back pain were paid.   I felt so relieved. At have finish them all, although I feel that they need more improvement. I can smile, laugh, and spend relax time in Mac room (a room to access internet freely in UI library). Then, in the night we plan to have short trip to Bogor. Adi, my kost mate couldn’t imagine that tomorrow we were going to have picnic and eating mangoes.

Yap, we started the 25 December holiday by getting up rather late. I was so productive. Finally I can wash some of my clothes and had breakfast together with the WAY (Wildan, Adi, Yogi) member. Then we had a meeting point at UI station with Ita, Piyan and Rahman. Ita was so busy for her embassy stuff. Piyan was also hectic with his IT services; meanwhile Rahman was in his long trip of holiday. So, 6 of us went to Bogor by commuter line and public transportation.

First destination is Bogor Botanical Garden. It was so green and fresh. We couldn’t wait for lying down on the green and clean grass. We took some photos near giant trees, red bridge, and presidential palace. 6 of us are the alumnae of SSEAYP, so we talked about SSEAYP all day, hahaa. Actually it was so bad to always talk about that because it indicates that we can’t move on from the program. Botanical Garden of Bogor was an exotic place with its collection of conservation tree. It is a place to share happiness regardless your age. It is also quite cheap, only Rp 15.000 for entrance ticket.

We continue our lalalaalala holiday to Cimory. It is out of Bogor city, we need to take public transportation twice. It was unlucky for us because the road was block for one way, because it was holiday and a lot of cars go to Puncak. So how? We took angkot and go to narrower road in the hilly villages for about 30 minutes. We didn’t realize that it was about 3.30 p.m. we didn’t have lunch yet. So, finally welcome to Cimory, a beautiful restaurant and milk center with Mountain View. The milk was so fresh and the foods are tasty. Cimory is famous from its milk, chocolate and local foods.

Our last trip was in Botany Square. We just wanted to try how the Mall in Bogor was. It is not really big, but it is a good place for family eating out time. I saw some spots of product of Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB), Authentic Batik of Bogor, and the rest is modern foods and fashion store. “I don’t want to have dinner here, I prefer our favorite warteg near UI station, 24 hours warteg Sasari” so, we backed home, ate out there, and arrive at kost but still discussing about SSEAYP (again and again).

Thank you Wildan, Adi, Ita, Rahman and Piyan for this cheap fun short trip. J

Recharging Friendship

Second home at Srikaton

That is a small cozy house in a village named Sri Katon in Adiluwih Sub district, Pringsewu. That is the house where I used to stay in some holidays when I was in senior high school. It is always a comfortable place to stay as I can smell the fresh grass and hear the voice of bird in the morning. You know, I feel like in the village in Jogja. People around the village have quite similar accent like Jogja people. In this house I feel like be a part of the family. This house belongs to one of my senior high school best friend, Satria.

From years to years, there are no significant changes in this house, same shape, same grass, same mango tree, same backyard. What make it different are both of us, we are growing elder. It is like some months ago we just shared campus for our undergraduate. Some years later, we talked about the life and choices after graduate. We go for different path and passion and come back to share what we have achieved. It is not easy to find a good friend that can listen to your problem, that can give insight, that can accept your condition, and that can be stay humble.

So, some days ago I visited his house to meet him. He talked a lot about his current job as a supervisor for Palm Oil plantation in deep West Kalimantan. His previous supervised area was about 9 hours from Pontianak. He was the planner with his team in very remote area of Dayak ethnic groups with “local” mindset of people. For me it was very hard life, no tv, far access of business center, lots of wild animal. He knows how to communicate with Dayak people about his company business, he knows how to face crocodile in the river, and he knows how to avoid magical things in that community. He said he is ready if he should die someday there, J. He survived for his strong mental. It was so contrast with my life and personality. Lol. But what I learned from this is that little time can change us a lot as the path you choose is in your hand.

No more waste of time. I try to reflect back to myself. I’m still preparing to be English and Linguistics lecturer, my time should be more than studying at the campus. I should think what I can do with what I have already achieved. It is always a good quality time to talk about our current life with the person that you know you for long time. It is what I called as recharging friendship because in our age, talking and sharing directly in the place that we missed is “expensive”. It is because both of us have been under the rule of our respective institution that limits us to interact, because we have other bigger responsibility there. So, Sat, see you next holiday season with new stories and unpredictable experience you passed.

Tentang Kelas Bahasa dan Kebudayaan

With inspiring bu Jenny, Prof. Dr. Njaju Jenny Malik Tomi Hardjatno, S.S., MA

Hari ini menandai berakhirnya tugas kuliah semester ganjil tahun pertama di kelas Bahasa dan Kebudayaan Ilmu linguistik UI. rasanya lega, cukup puas, dan rasa pegal badan karena begadang ini sedikit dei sedikit berakhir. “Begini ya rasanya s2” akademiknya terasah karena harus kritis, rajin membandingkan dan mengaplikasikan teori, makin ingin tahu apa yang para linguist itu telah capai, dan makin ingin tau apa yang di daerah saya (Lampung) belum di kaji. Kelas Bahasa dan Kebudayaan adalah salah satu konsentrasi dari program s2 Ilmu linguistik di Universitas indonesia. Fokusya adalah mengkaji fenomena bahasa dan dikaitkan dengan kebudayaan setempat. Konstentrasi lain di s2 Ilmu linguistik UI adalah Linguistik Pengajaran, Linguistik Penerjemahan, dan Linguistik Murni.

Tahun saya, kelas Bahasa dan Kebudayaan berisi 7 mahasiswa super, kritis, dan easy going (satunya saya), yaitu Dita Sabariah (S1 Sastra Indonesia UI), Enggar Mulyajati (S1 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris UNJ), Febri Hermawan (S1 Sastra Jawa UI), Yoga Mestika (S1 Pendidikan bahasa Inggris UN Padang), Fina Andriani (S1 Sastra Belanda UI) dan Reno Risanti Amalia (S1 Sastra Rusia UI). Senang sekali bisa berteman dengan mereka.

Semester ini kami mendapat 5 mata kuliah dengan masing-masing 3 sks. Sayangnya tidak bisa ditumpuk di akhir pekan, jadi kalau mau partime bisanya sore. Kuliah hari selasa adalah Kajian Wacana. tidak hanya kelas saya yang mengikuti kuliah ini, tetapi juga kelas Pengajaran dan Penerjemahan. Di Kuliah ini saya belajar apa saja yang termasuk wacana, bagaimana wacana dihubungkan dengan pragmatiknya Grice, wacana dihubungkan dengan narrative nya Labov, wacana dihubungkan dengan iklan melalui teori semiotika Barthes, Pierce dan Saussure, wacana dihubungkan dengan kebudayaan (duh lupa teorinya, ada dibuku milik Pak rahyono), wacana dihubungkan dengan sosiolonguistik dengan teori Clark, Wacana dan Sejarah (ini bapaknya nggak masuk) terakhir kajian wacana kritis (CDA). tugas akhirnya? tentu bikin paper yang seminar-able. Ya dijejali teori begini harus diimbangi dengan minum jamu buyung upik.

Kuliah Rabu di isi dengan Filsafat Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya. Saya belajar tentang sejarah filsafat dari plato aristoteles sampai aliran filsafat itu menjadi ilmu pengetahuan yang terbagi-bagi. Di sini saya belajar tentang strukturalisme, post strukturalisme, post modernisme, cultural studies. Walau semua masih dasar, setidaknya tau nama-nama seperti Derrida, Foucault, Krsiteva, dll. Sorenya, kuliah lagi tentang Semantik. Kuliah semantik yang saya dapatkan lebih dari pengetahuan semantik di S1. Saya harus belajar memahami semantik strukturalis, semantik historis, dan bedanya dengan pragmatik. Yang saya suka dari kuliah ini adalah, dosen-dosen membukakan pikiran saya tentang cara pandang masyarakat yang terealisasi dalam istilah/kosakata suatu bahasa. Di akhir tugasnya adalah…….. paper jugaaaa…

Hari Kamis diisi dengan kuliah Teori kebudayaan. Bagaimana melihat kebudayaan dari sisi sejarah, semiotika, arkeologi, dan bahasa. Lumayan seru. y walaupun ketemu barthes lagi, ketemu saussure lagi. Di sini saya belajar untuk melihat gejala budaya dari berbagai persepktif. Mudah-mudahan suatu hari saya bisa menghasilkan tulisan tentang kebudayaan dari saya yang pelajari di sini.

Hari jumat adalah kuliah Sosiolinguistik (8 pertemuan pertama) dengan buku Janet Holmes. berasa s1 banget. 8 pertemuan berikutnya adalah belajar Dialektologi atau penggambaran variasi bahasa. Dialektologi ini merupakan kuliah yang agak langka di linguistik di Indonesia, karena ahlinya juga belum banyak. Di sini adalah penggambungan ilmu linguistik dan geografi, bagaimana memetakan suatu kondisi kebahasaan suatu daerah. Gambar peta, hitung-hitung perbedaan penyebutan kosakata.

Selamat tinggal begadang stress…berapapun nilainya, semoga maksimal. Saya sudah tidak berpikir tentang persaingan antar mahasiswa. Sekarang berpikirnya, enjoy kuliah bersama, bahagia bersama, belajar bersama, curhat tentang jodoh bersama dan….. lulus bersama-sama.

Satu yang saya suka adalah 6 dari tujuh kelas kami bisa ikut Seminar Internasional linguistik Transdisipliner ke 2 di UI bulan lalu bersama-sama. Semoga nanti bisa seminar lagi. 🙂

terimakasih Fina, Yoga, Dita, Enggar, Febri, dan Mbak Reno 🙂