Arabic Greeting Variations in Surakarta (Sociolinguistic Studies)

Greeting from the Chairman

Arabic Studies’ Progress in Information Retrieval

The field of information retrieval has witnessed tangible progress over the past decades in response to the expanded usage of the internet and the dire need of users to search for massive amounts of digital information. Given the steady increase of Arabic e-content, excellent information retrieval systems must be devised to suit the nature and requirements of the Arabic language. This paper she...

Age Grading in Sociolinguistic Theory

Distinguishing linguistic change at the community level (‘generational change’) from linguistic change at the individual level (‘age grading’) is ‘‘one of the major issues in contemporary sociolinguistics’’ (Tagliamonte 2012:247). This article gives a brief history of the study of language change in the community, before turning to the types of linguistic behavior that have been observed across...

New Directions in Sociolinguistic Cognition

Variationists have largely, though often implicitly, subscribed to a model of social cognition that characterizes complex social reasoning as conscious and deliberative (e.g. the sociolinguistic monitor), in opposition to rapid and automatic linguistic behaviors (e.g. the vernacular). This paper argues against that assumption, presenting evidence from the field of social cognition which documen...

Penile length of newborns and children in Surakarta, Indonesia

Normal penile length reference is required for assessing a child with micropenis complaint. Some studies revealed differences in normal penile length based on their race. We want to know the normal penile length of newborns, children and adolescent in Surakarta which majority people are Javanese. We studied male newborns and children attended to Moewardi Hospital in the period of January 2011 –...