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REiLA: Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Published by Universitas Lancang Kuning
ISSN : 26850818     EISSN : 26853906     DOI : https://doi.org/10.31849/reila
Core Subject : Education, Social,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences
REiLA Journal of Research and Innovation in Language is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published triannual on April, August and December. It is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers in the field of languages. Although articles are written in English, the journal welcomes studies dealing with other than English as well. The scope of REiLA includes the following fields: The subject covers textual and fieldwork studies with various perspectives of Language, research of History, Society, Humanity, and also various perspectives in Education interest.
Arjuna Subject : Ilmu Sosial - Linguistik dan Bahasa
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Pride, Profit, and Cultural Intimacy: Language Commodification and Register Indexicality in Central Javanese Coffee Shop Ergonyms Eric Kunto Aribowo; Nanik Herawati; Eksa Dewi Fahningrum
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Publisher : The Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) - Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/3ea0vn77

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Although commercial naming (ergonyms) plays a pivotal role in urban identi-ty, how local entrepreneurs linguistically navigate the tension between global-ization and regional heritage in developing non-metropolitan markets remains under-theorized. This study examines coffee shop naming strategies in Central Java, Indonesia, employing a convergent mixed-methods design. An empirical corpus of 571 unique establishments across five cities was compiled via ge-oweb scraping and analyzed through a nine-dimensional socio-onomastic cod-ing scheme. Quantitative analysis reveals that concise names of one to three words dominate the landscape (73.03%). Monolingual Indonesian names com-prise 50.79% of the corpus, while commodified monolingual English (32.92%) and Javanese (13.49%) names reflect competing glocal positionings. While English operates primarily as a prestigious lifestyle “ideofier” (47.11% of total names) to project cosmopolitanism, Javanese names are strategically deployed as anchors of local solidarity. Within the Javanese sub-corpus, own-ers overwhelmingly select the informal Ngoko speech register (89.25%) over the refined Krama register (10.75%), indexing cultural intimacy and commu-nity warmth over rigid traditional hierarchies. Morphological and orthographic creativity further manifest through lexical blending with haplology (6.13%) and spaceless concatenation (4.73%), supported by a front-vowel phonesthetic dominance (57.44%) projecting modern speed. This study contributes to the broader fields of linguistic landscapes and applied sociolinguistics by demon-strating that commercial naming is a selective, bottom-up process of glocal synthesis, wherein local heritage is actively commodified to negotiate social comfort rather than passively succumbing to globalizing homogenization.
Critical Semiotics of Pakkiok Bunting  Poem in Makassar Oral Tradition Asis Nojeng; Sakaria Sakaria; Nur Hasbi
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Publisher : The Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) - Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/a3c15p44

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Ritual language does more than preserve cultural memory; it organizes meaning, legitimizes authority, and shapes gendered identities. Yet research on Pakkiok Bunting , a Makassar wedding poem, has remained descriptive, emphasizing form, function, and values without explaining how linguistic imagery, symbolic expressions, and ritual discourse construct ideology. This study examines how the language of Pakkiok Bunting  produces cultural meaning and reproduces social norms through critical semiotics and symbolic anthropology. Employing a qualitative interpretative-critical design, the study analyzed a textual corpus derived from Puisi-Puisi Makassar (1995), supported by observation, performance documentation, transcription, and translation. Data were examined across imagery, symbols, magical beliefs, gender representation, and customary authority. Trustworthiness was strengthened through triangulation, peer debriefing, an audit trail, and thick description. The findings demonstrate that visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and emotional imagery functions not merely as poetic ornamentation but as linguistic and semiotic resources that create sacredness, emotional intensity, and participation. Waves, mist, the moon, stars, drums, Daeng Bunting, and tears encode destiny, ritual legitimacy, family honor, lineage continuity, and maternal sacrifice. The poem consequently operates as performative-magical discourse: its language does not simply describe reality but helps constitute and legitimize it. It also constructs women as bearers of family dignity while normalizing their reproductive and emotional burdens. The study’s originality lies in conceptualizing ritual poetry as linguistic action and offering a transferable critical-semiotic model for examining how language, power, gender, and cultural memory are negotiated in oral traditions, with implications for culturally responsive preservation, language education, and intergenerational transmission.
Nominalization Patterns in Tombatu Language: A Generative Morphological Analysis of Affixal Noun Formation Verra Ellen Manangkot; Jola Kristiani Liuw; Lucky Herliawan Yanuarsyah Amalputra; Metty Ribka Manila; Fergina Lengkoan
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Publisher : The Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) - Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/prbf9s30

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Regional languages preserve complex grammatical systems that reveal how communities organize experience, identity, and cultural knowledge. However, nominalization in Tombatu, an underdescribed Austronesian language of Minahasa, has not been systematically examined through an explicit rule-based morphological framework. This study addresses this gap by investigating the structural patterns, semantic functions, and generative mechanisms of affixal noun formation in Tombatu. Employing a descriptive-taxonomic design, data were collected over six months in Tombatu Village from proficient speakers through naturally occurring speech, elicitation, recording, note-taking, and informant validation. The final dataset found unique nominalized forms. These forms were classified into three major processes comprising 11 noun-forming prefixes, one noun-forming suffix, and 14 affix combinations, yielding 26 identified affixal configurations. The analysis applied Word Combination Rules, Derivation Rules, the Boundary Insertion Convention, and relevant morphological constraints. The findings show that prefixation exhibits the greatest structural and semantic variation in the dataset, producing agentive, person-denoting, instrumental, object-related, and result-related nouns. For example, /tapə-/ combines with /lukuʔ/ ‘to drink’ to form /tapəlukuʔ/ [tapəlukuʔ] ‘drinker’. Suffixation is more restricted, with /-an/ forming locative nouns, as in /tawoi/ ‘to work’ plus /-an/, which produces /tawoian/ [tawoian] ‘workplace’. Complex affix combinations form nouns denoting places, processes, objects, states, results, and entities. This study provides the first systematic generative account of Tombatu nominalization, expands empirical evidence for Austronesian word formation, strengthens regional-language documentation, and offers a linguistic basis for language maintenance and potential contrastive morphological activities in multilingual education.
When Culture Shapes Refusal: Speech Acts and Politeness in Multicultural Indonesian EFL Classrooms Afrizona Niken Trisna; Jismulatif Jismulatif; Indah Tri Purwanti; Eka Utami Putri; James G. Rush
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Publisher : The Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) - Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/qc2t3866

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Refusal is a socially consequential act through which speakers negotiate communicative intentions, face, and interpersonal harmony. Despite growing research on interlanguage pragmatics, limited attention has been devoted to how ethnically diverse Indonesian EFL learners realize refusals within a shared university environment. Addressing this gap, this study examined the distribution, combinations, and ethnic variation of refusal and politeness strategies among 113 EFL students representing seven Indonesian ethnic groups in the English Education Study Program at Universitas Lancang Kuning. Using a descriptive quantitative design supported by qualitative exemplification, data were elicited through a Discourse Completion Task adapted from Beebe et al. (1990). Participants’ responses were segmented into semantic formulas and classified as direct refusals, indirect refusals, or adjuncts. Coding reliability was established through validation by three independent linguistics experts. Indirect strategies predominated (67.13%), followed by adjuncts (24.77%), whereas direct refusals were least frequent (8.10%). Statement of Regret was the most prevalent indirect strategy, Gratitude/Appreciation was the leading adjunct, and the recurrent combination of Statement of Regret with Statement of Alternative reflected layered mitigation intended to preserve relational harmony. Although Batak participants demonstrated a comparatively greater tendency toward directness, indirect and mitigated refusals remained dominant across all ethnic groups. These findings indicate that a shared EFL learning environment fosters broadly convergent politeness practices while retaining culturally patterned variation. The study’s originality lies in mapping intranational ethnic diversity within an Indonesian EFL setting, thereby extending intercultural pragmatics beyond cross-national comparisons and supporting explicit, culturally responsive pragmatic instruction in increasingly multicultural English-language classrooms.

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