Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances

Harmony is a critical Javanese philosophical concept used to establish social relationships. In face-to-face communication, the principle of harmony is enacted in an attempt to ensure the social relations between the speakers remain harmonious, peaceful, and free from disputes. In face-to-face dis...

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Main Authors:	Rahmawanto, Dwi, Rahyono, F.X.
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13977/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13977/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13977/1/28516-98618-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-139772020-01-23T01:20:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13977/ Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances Rahmawanto, Dwi Rahyono, F.X. Harmony is a critical Javanese philosophical concept used to establish social relationships. In face-to-face communication, the principle of harmony is enacted in an attempt to ensure the social relations between the speakers remain harmonious, peaceful, and free from disputes. In face-to-face discourse, the selection of speech acts that establishes these aspects is a strategic communication tool. Every speech act states a different level of politeness when addressed to different speech partner. Wayang kulit, a leading puppet theater performance of the Javanese, contains face-to-face dialogs that enact such efforts to maintain harmony. This study examines these dialogs between wayang kulit characters to better understand the role that language plays in establishing harmony in this art form of puppet theater. The study uses the classification of speech acts by Searle (1975). It is observed that the choice of illocutionary speech acts plays a role in controlling the occurrence of disputes in communication. These speech acts are also studied from the perspective of the theories of politeness from Brown and Levinson (1978) and Leech (1983); (2014). We argue that politeness in speech is used to express the values of Javanese harmony. The results of this study provide practical insight into the principle of Javanese harmony, represented in face-to-face communication in a purwa shadow puppet performance, and also represents a universal value appropriate for the realization of friendly social relationships more broadly. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13977/1/28516-98618-1-PB.pdf Rahmawanto, Dwi and Rahyono, F.X. (2019) Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 25 (1). pp. 115-128. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1178
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description	Harmony is a critical Javanese philosophical concept used to establish social relationships. In face-to-face communication, the principle of harmony is enacted in an attempt to ensure the social relations between the speakers remain harmonious, peaceful, and free from disputes. In face-to-face discourse, the selection of speech acts that establishes these aspects is a strategic communication tool. Every speech act states a different level of politeness when addressed to different speech partner. Wayang kulit, a leading puppet theater performance of the Javanese, contains face-to-face dialogs that enact such efforts to maintain harmony. This study examines these dialogs between wayang kulit characters to better understand the role that language plays in establishing harmony in this art form of puppet theater. The study uses the classification of speech acts by Searle (1975). It is observed that the choice of illocutionary speech acts plays a role in controlling the occurrence of disputes in communication. These speech acts are also studied from the perspective of the theories of politeness from Brown and Levinson (1978) and Leech (1983); (2014). We argue that politeness in speech is used to express the values of Javanese harmony. The results of this study provide practical insight into the principle of Javanese harmony, represented in face-to-face communication in a purwa shadow puppet performance, and also represents a universal value appropriate for the realization of friendly social relationships more broadly.
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author	Rahmawanto, Dwi Rahyono, F.X.
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author_facet	Rahmawanto, Dwi Rahyono, F.X.
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title	Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances
title_short	Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances
title_full	Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances
title_fullStr	Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances
title_full_unstemmed	Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances
title_sort	strategies for establishing harmony in javanese face-to-face dialog in purwa shadow puppet performances
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Strategies for establishing harmony in Javanese face-to-face dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances

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