The collocation and grammatical behaviour of two nouns denoting women in Sundanese: A corpus-based analysis of language and gender relationship

• Published in: Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World pp. 371 - 379
• Main Authors: Bagasworo, P.G., Suhardijanto, T.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: CRC Press 2018
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: WordSmith Tools; Grammatical Tendencies; Young Man; Bengawan Solo; Adjectival Modifier; DPR; Tana Toraja; Vice Versa; Universitas Indonesia; Word Boga; Sundanese Women; Grammatical Behaviour; East Indies; Homo Ecologicus; Lob Corpus; Co-occurring Words; Collocational Behaviour; Mochtar Lubis; Significant Collocates; Collocation Test; National Library; Lob
• ISBN: 1138626643; 9781138626645
• DOI: 10.1201/9781315225340-53

For many years, people have been discussing the potential relationships, intersections, and tensions between language structures and gender in different ways. This paper focuses on the collocational and grammatical behaviour of two nouns in Sundanese denoting woman as used in the corpus of Manglè magazine. The corpus comprises of texts taken from Manglè published between 1958 and 2013. This paper examines collocational and grammatical tendencies between a node and its collocate where the node acts as a subject or an object of a sentence. In this paper, the analysis only focuses on two Sundanese nouns denoting woman and view them as the node of collocational constructions. This study approaches Sundanese corpus data from the Romaine perspective that looked at sexism in language through collocational and grammatical evidence (Romaine, 2000). By taking this approach, this analysis allows us to reveal deeper information about sexism in language through collocation behaviour between a subject or an object and the surrounding words. The result shows that pamajikan tends to co-occur with words that are semantically related to family and women's submissive quality, while wanoja tends to co-occur with words that are semantically related to independence. This chapter focuses on the collocational and grammatical behaviour of two nouns in Sundanese denoting woman as used in the corpus of Mangle magazine. It examines collocational and grammatical tendencies between a node and its collocate where the node acts as a subject or an object of a sentence. The chapter describes the Sundanese corpus data from the Romaine perspective that looked at sexism in language through collocational and grammatical evidence. It reveals the relationship between language structure and gender through the patterns of collocational and grammatical behaviour of two Sundanese words: wanoja and pamajikan. The chapter examines not only the grammatical behaviour, particularly in relation to the subject and predicate of a sentence, but also the collocational behaviour of the words wanoja and pamajikan in order to reveal the way a woman is constructed in Sundanese society.