Authors : Prihandini Asih, Sari Retno Purwani and Tawami Tatan
Abstract: This study proposes a framework of Sundanese maintenance designed by adopting sociolinguistics perspectives with Hyme’s ethnography of speaking framework as the basis of analysis. In the way of this sense it attempts to discover ways to: protect and preserve Sundanese. Answering the challenges, it involving Sundanese language speaker’s practices, applies qualitative method with observation for data collection and description for data analysis. As a result, this study reveals, a way in which Sundaneses can be protected; through policy establishments and strategies with which Sundanese can be preserved by implementing, Sundanese for social interaction in particular occasion in the society, Sundanese as a communication device in conducting family’s activities, Sundanese names for public spaces with fruitful Sundanese values, empowered Sundanese-maintenance programs of the local community in both virtual and real world. Consequently it is expected that the suggested framework provides prototypical government programs to protect and preserve Sundanese as a minority language in the wave of globalization.
Prihandini Asih, Sari Retno Purwani and Tawami Tatan, 2017. Protection and Preservation of Sundanese in Public Spaces. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 11: 1-6.