Ganesha Education University Lecturer Succeeded in Obtaining a Doctorate Degree in Linguistics Doctoral Program, Faculty of Humanities Udayana University

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Ganesha Education University lecturer succeeded in obtaining a doctorate degree in the Linguistics Doctoral Program, Faculty of Humanities Udayana University through an open examination on Friday, July 5 2024 in Dr. Ir. Sukarno. The student named I Made Suta Paramarta, S.Pd., M.Hum. declared to have passed with the distinction of "With Honor". The student is the 212th doctoral graduate at the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University and the 232nd doctoral graduate in the Linguistics Program.

The student presented a dissertation entitled "Linguistics of the Campus Landscape in Singaraja City: Contestation, Policy Implementation and Language Attitudes". The dissertation explains the added value in developing landscape linguistic theory, especially in the context of language policy in the Bali region. By exploring linguistic phenomena in the campus environment, it is hoped that it can contribute to the understanding of language contestation and the implementation of language policy at the higher education level. It is hoped that the findings of this study can be a consideration for the government in formulating more effective language policies in the future.

This research was carried out at five campuses, namely Ganesha Education University (UPG), Panji Sakti University (UPS), STAH Mpu Kuturan (MK), Monarch Bali Singaraja (MS), and HI Singaraja Campus (HIS). The results of this research are divided into two parts, namely language contestation in the linguistic landscape of the physical campus and language contestation in the linguistic linguistic landscape of the virtual campus. The language contestation in this research is closely related to the linguistic function of landscape presented by Landry and Bourhis (1997), namely as an informative and symbolic medium. Indonesian is dominantly used in outdoor media on the UPG Central Campus, UPG Lower Campus, UPS and MK campuses for several reasons. There are languages ​​that are not dominant and/or marginal, such as Balinese, Old Javanese, Sanskrit and several non-English foreign languages.

Meanwhile, the findings on the virtual linguistic landscape of the Indonesian campus are dominant on four websites, namely the Indonesian version of the UPG website, UPS, MK, and MS. The use of Indonesian is based on four reasons. First, Indonesian is an inter-ethnic lingua franca in Indonesia. The Indonesian version of this website clearly targets Indonesian readers. Second, the use of Indonesian is an indexation of nationalism. Apart from functioning instrumentally, Indonesian also has a symbolic function, namely as an indexation of nationalism and, thirdly, to comply with national language policies. Fourth, campus websites that use the formal Indonesian language show a high degree of campus formality.

Prof. Dr. Ketut Artawa, M.A. as the promoter said that in this dissertation public space is socio-cultural space and political space. “There is never-ending contestation in public space. The history of the contestation of public space began in Germany, where public space was a place to gather with friends for discussion or recreation. However, recently public spaces are no longer just places for discussion and recreation, but have become spaces for reading the writings around us." concluded Prof. Artawa.(agt)