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Associate Professor Dwi Noverini Djenar
PhD (University of Melbourne), MA (La Trobe University), Dra (Gajah Mada University) (summa cum Laude), Grad. Dip. Ed (University of Melbourne)
Associate Professor, Chair of Indonesian Studies Department
Phone
+61 2 9036 9512
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Novi Djenar is Associate Professor in Indonesian Studies. Her research interests lie in questions about how language facilitates understandings of sociocultural and political ideas, including ideas about self-other relations, identity and style. Novi has worked on the stylistics of adolescent literature, focusing on the production and circulation of styles and their relationship to sociolinguistic change. Her current research examines language and relations among social actors in public spheres, particularly in broadcast settings.
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- Youth language practices
- Address and Self- and other reference in interaction
- Literary stylistics
- Language and place
Teaching Areas
Novi coordinates and teaches beginners and intermediate Indonesian (INMS1101, INMS1102, INMS2601, INMS2602) and units in Asian Studies and School of Languages & Cultures - Youth and Language in Asia (ASNS3001), Languages, Societies, Institutions (SLCS4201).
Research Supervision
Novi welcomes proposals from interested Honours and postgraduate students wishing to conduct research in areas including: Indonesian language and society, youth language practices, the stylistics of youth fiction, language and place, address and reference.
Forthcoming book chapter:
Djenar, Dwi Noverini. (fth). The Minister and the Team: Text, Address and Responses. In Maya R. Abtahian, Abigail C. Cohn, Thomas J. Conners, Joseph J. Errington, and Yanti (Eds.), Indonesian Languages and Linguistics: State of the Field, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Editorial Board Member, Discourse & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/DAS
- Editorial Board Member, NUSA Linguistic Studies in and around Indonesia. www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/publications/nusa
- Editorial Board Member, journal Linguistik Indonesia (published by the Indonesian Linguistic Society) http://ojs.linguistik-indonesia.org/index.php/linguistik_indonesia
- Member of Ad Hoc Expert Committee, UNESCO's World Atlas of Languages. https://en.wal.unesco.org/about-unesco-wal/ad-hoc-expert-committee
2024:Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Commendation of Teaching Excellence
2015: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Commendation (Semester 1)
2015:Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Commendation (Semester 2)
Indonesia | (Graduate Program in Linguistics, Udayana University) Research collaboration |
Indonesia | (University of Indonesia, Faculty of Arts) With Dr Bernadette Kushartanti, Department of Linguistics, University of Indonesia |
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Investigating the effects of L2 proficiency on ESL learners’ interactional competence | Ziyi JIANG |
| Indonesian Discourse Markers (DMs): The Case of Indonesian Community in Sydney, Australia. | Syarif Hidayat NASIR |
| Javanese Languaging on Screen: The Role of Digital Media and Entertainment Industry in Language Ecology | Muhammad ROZIN |
| Rapport Management in Australian Multicultural Workplaces: The Case of Indonesian Workers in Sydney | Fitri Amalia SHINTASIWI |
| Processability theory (PT) and genre-based pedagogy (GBP): A case study of speaking and writing skills in the Indonesian high school context | Rudi SUHERMAN |
Selected publications
Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia
(Springer, 2024)
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities.
(National University of Singapore Press, 2022)
Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2018)
Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2015)
Indonesian Reference Grammar
(Allen and Unwin, 2010)
Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar
(Routledge, 2010)
Semantic, pragmatic and discourse perspectives of preposition use: a study of Indonesian locatives
(Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2007)
A Students Guide To Indonesian Grammar
(OUP Australia and New Zealand, 2003)
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Publications
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Books
- Djenar, D., Ewing, M., Manns, H. (2018). Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
- Sneddon, J., Adelaar, A., Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2010). Indonesian Reference Grammar. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
- Sneddon, J., Adelaar, A., Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2010). Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
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Edited Books
- Kushartanti, B., Djenar, D. (2024). Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia. Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Sidnell, J. (2022). Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities.. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Mahboob, A., Cruickshank, K. (2015). Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Djenar, D. (2024). Just Like Conversation?: Speech and Thought Presentation in Indonesian Adolescent Fiction. In Bernadette Kushartanti and Dwi Noverini Djenar (Eds.), Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia, (pp. 125-145). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2023). Personal Pronouns and Noun Phrases as Shifters in Southeast Asian Languages. In Laura L. Paterson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, (pp. 135-147). London: Routledge. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2023). Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice? In Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Helene Vinckel-Roisin (Eds.), Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, (pp. 185-210). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [More Information]
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Journals
- Djenar, D. (2024). Levelling, Differentiation and Structure of Feeling: Address and Interlocutor Reference in Indonesian Political Interviews. Discourse and Society, 35(4), 434-454. [More Information]
- Abtahian, M., Cohn, A., Djenar, D., Vogel, R. (2021). Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns: Form, function and variation. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 7(2), 185-214. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2021). Learning how to say 'you' in Indonesian: why it's time to embrace its complexity. Melbourne Asia Review, (7), 1-10. [More Information]
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Edited Journals
- Djenar, D. (2015). Youth language in Indonesia and Malaysia. NUSA Linguistic Studies in and around Indonesia, 58(March).
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Ewing, M., Djenar, D. (2017). The nexus between language diversity and language education. IIAS Newsletter, 77.
- Djenar, D. (2016). Adolescent interaction, local languages and peripherality in teen fiction. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 155.
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2024
- Djenar, D. (2024). Just Like Conversation?: Speech and Thought Presentation in Indonesian Adolescent Fiction. In Bernadette Kushartanti and Dwi Noverini Djenar (Eds.), Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia, (pp. 125-145). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
- Kushartanti, B., Djenar, D. (2024). Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia. Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2024). Levelling, Differentiation and Structure of Feeling: Address and Interlocutor Reference in Indonesian Political Interviews. Discourse and Society, 35(4), 434-454. [More Information]
2023
- Djenar, D. (2023). Personal Pronouns and Noun Phrases as Shifters in Southeast Asian Languages. In Laura L. Paterson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, (pp. 135-147). London: Routledge. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2023). Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice? In Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Helene Vinckel-Roisin (Eds.), Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, (pp. 185-210). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [More Information]
2022
- Djenar, D. (2022). Interlocutor reference and deferential relations in Indonesian broadcast talk. In Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell (Eds.), Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities.. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
- Djenar, D., Sidnell, J. (2022). Interlocutor reference in Southeast Asian speech communities: Sociolinguistic patterns and interactional dynamics. In Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell (Eds.), Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities.. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
- Djenar, D., Sidnell, J. (2022). Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities.. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. [More Information]
2021
- Abtahian, M., Cohn, A., Djenar, D., Vogel, R. (2021). Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns: Form, function and variation. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 7(2), 185-214. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2021). Learning how to say 'you' in Indonesian: why it's time to embrace its complexity. Melbourne Asia Review, (7), 1-10. [More Information]
- Peterson Tym, C., Aldahesh, A., An, S., Basheer, N., Djenar, D., Lewis, P., Pitaloka, D., Rubino, A., Wang, W. (2021). Migrant experiences of living with type 2 diabetes in Western Sydney, Australia: A multilingual pilot research project. Public Health Research and Practice, 31(2), 1-4. [More Information]
2020
- Djenar, D. (2020). Adolescent Interaction, Local Languages and Peripherality in Teen Fiction. In Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole, Howard Manns (Eds.), Contact Talk: The Discoursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries, (pp. 108-125). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2020). The stylistics of emoji: An interactional approach. In Helen Ringrow and Stephen Pihlaja (Eds.), Contemporary Media Stylistics: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics, (pp. 107-140). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
2019
- Ewing, M., Djenar, D. (2019). Address, reference and sequentiality in Indonesian conversation. In Paul Bouissac (Eds.), The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, (pp. 253-287). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2019). Recognitional Reference and Rapport Building in the Author Interview. In Zane Goebel (Eds.), Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters, (pp. 163-184). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2019). Reflections on Writing and Teaching Indonesian Grammar. In Paul S. Thomas (Eds.), Talking North: The journey of Australia's first Asian language, (pp. 271-278). Clayton: Monash University Publishing.
2018
- Djenar, D. (2018). Constituent order and information structure in Indonesian discourse. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara and Atsuko Utsumi (Eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian Languages (Studies in Diversity Linguistics Series), (pp. 177-205). Berlin: Language Science Press. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Ewing, M., Manns, H. (2018). Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
2017
- Ewing, M., Djenar, D. (2017). The nexus between language diversity and language education. IIAS Newsletter, 77.
2016
- Djenar, D. (2016). Adolescent interaction, local languages and peripherality in teen fiction. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 155.
- Djenar, D. (2016). That's how it is there: Place, self and others in Indonesian narrative. Narrative Inquiry, 26(2), 402-429. [More Information]
2015
- Djenar, D., Mahboob, A., Cruickshank, K. (2015). Identity and mode as a frame for understanding social meanings. In Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ahmar Mahboob, Ken Cruickshank (Eds.), Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication, (pp. 1-13). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Mahboob, A., Cruickshank, K. (2015). Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
- Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2015). Language varieties and youthful involvement in Indonesian fiction. Language and Literature, 24(2), 108-128. [More Information]
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2014
- Djenar, D. (2014). Adolescent social media interaction and authorial stance in Indonesian teen fiction. Wacana, 15(1), 166-180. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2014). Nih and tuh as spatial deixis in imagined interaction. NUSA Linguistic Studies in and around Indonesia, 56, 27-46.
2013
- Djenar, D. (2013). Review of Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre, Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Language and Literature, 22(2), 160-163. [More Information]
2012
- Djenar, D. (2012). Almost unbridled: Indonesian youth language and its critics. South East Asia Research, 20(1), 35-51. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2012). Deixis, Point of View, and Empathy. In Bahren Umar Siergar, P. Ari Subagyo, Yassir Nasanius (Eds.), Dari Menapak Jejak Kata sampai Menyigi Tata Bahasa: Persembahan untuk Prof. Dr. Bambang Kaswanti Purwo dalam Rangka Ulang tahunnya yang ke-60, (pp. 93-114). Jakarta: Pusat Kajian Bahasa dan Budaya Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
- Djenar, D. (2012). What's in a Name?: Referring to the President in the Indonesian Media. In Keith Foulcher, Mikihiro Moriyama and Manneke Budiman (Eds.), Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia, (pp. 234-256). Singapore: NUS (National University of Singapore) Press.
2010
- Sneddon, J., Adelaar, A., Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2010). Indonesian Reference Grammar. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
- Sneddon, J., Adelaar, A., Djenar, D., Ewing, M. (2010). Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2010). Reliable words: Third person pronouns in Indonesian News Reports. Wacana, 12(2), 269-294.
2009
- Djenar, D. (2009). Review of Ab Massier's "The voice of law in transition: Indonesian jurists and their languages, 1915-2000". Bijdragen Tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 165(1), 140-143.
2008
- Djenar, D. (2008). On the development of a colloquial writing style: Examining the language of Indonesian teen literature. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 164(2-3), 238-268. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2008). Which self? Pronominal choice, modernity, and self-categorizations. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 189(1), 31-54. [More Information]
2007
- Djenar, D. (2007). Self-Reference and its Variation in Indonesian. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 4(Supplement 1), 23-40.
- Djenar, D. (2007). Semantic, pragmatic and discourse perspectives of preposition use: a study of Indonesian locatives. Australia: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
2006
- Djenar, D. (2006). On the Multifunctionality of Compound Prepositions in Indonesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 45(2), 404-428. [More Information]
- Djenar, D. (2006). Patterns and variation of address terms in colloquial Indonesian. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 29(2), 22.1-22.16.
2003
- Djenar, D. (2003). A Students Guide To Indonesian Grammar. Australia: OUP Australia and New Zealand.
2001
- Djenar, D. (2001). Indonesian 'Locative' pronouns: Deictic or anaphoric? Australian Journal of Linguistics, 21(1), 49-71.
Selected Grants
2009
- The Language and Identity Research Group , Rubino A, Bednarek M, Cruickshank K, Djenar D, Jarkey N, Lipovsky C, Mahboob A, Paltridge B, Tsung L, Wang W, Yilmaz D, Zhang Z, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme
PhD and master's project opportunities
Selected grants
2018-2019: Sydney South East Asia Workshop Grant, "Language and Social Hierarchy: Workshop on Address and Reference in Southeast Asian Languages", held at The University of Sydney
2017-2018: Socially Embedded Diabetes Management among CALD Groups in Western Sydney; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Compact Funding, The University of Sydney (with Vek Lewis, Novi Djenar, Antonia Rubino, Nesrine Basheer, Ali Alhadesh, Dyah Pitaloka, Wei Wang, Irene Shidong An, Rifaat Abied)
2017-2020: Community Languages Initiative; funded by New South Wales Government; Project leader: Ken Cruickshank; members: Nesrine Basheer, Novi Djenar, Nerida Jarkey, Antonia Rubino, Linda Tsung
In the media
- Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Gatty Lecture Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt3Z78UFF5g&list=PLrQWZABeqo_uRMns_pHNtvh-tJB8gM7W0&index=5&t=224s
- Podcast,Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Gatty Rewind: https://gattyrewind.libsyn.com/episode-118-dr-djenar-associate-professor-in-indonesian-studies-the-university-of-sydney
- Podcast, Sydney South East Asia Centre:https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-languages-of-indonesian-politics-revisited
- Blog post & Podcast, Sydney Centre for Language Research: https://sydneylanguageresearch.org/2021/05/10/their-relationship-was-so-close-he-called-him-father-why-a-kin-term-can-cause-a-stir/
- Interview with PBS NOVA on language and emoji: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/emoji-language-culture/
- Interview with Snapchat for Global Friendship Project, Indonesia Report: https://forbusiness.snapchat.com/blog/the-friendship-report-2020-indonesia
- Podcast Ear to Asia, on language choice and challenges in Indonesia (with A/Prof Michael Ewing): https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/asia-institute/ear-to-asia/episodes/episode-48
- Interview with SBS: "Is the Indonesian language used today the same as in the past? How have the language and its speakers evolved?" https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/dwi-noverini-djenar-nlc19
- Article in Sydney Morning Herald: "Indonesian presidential hopefuls campaign for poetic justice" https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/indonesian-presidential-hopefuls-campaign-for-poetic-justice-20140703-zsuk6.html
- Interview with SBS on Indonesian teen literature (in Indonesian): https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/dr-novi-djenar-teen-lit