Hello good readers! It has been a long time since the last time I
visited here. I’m so happy because I can write something
that I think it will be good for you all and me especially.
This time, I would like
to write the
analysis about a video that I
already chose before. Then I would like to analyze the sociolinguistics’ aspects that's in the video. Actually, this
video analysis is to fulfill Sociolinguistics’ task that thought and given by Mrs. Yuna Tresna Wahyuna, SS., M.Hum. However, i enjoyed
watching and analyzed the video even
though I felt the difficulties when analyzed it, but I enjoyed it.
The video is about Niki Zefanya, one of singers from
Indonesia who become an artist in U.S and she already became an international
singer that was done an interview with Billboard Indonesia.
Talking about why I
chose the video of Niki Zefanya, because I’m so interested with her, like the
way she speaks, the way she sings and the other one is because she’s an
Indonesian. That’s why I chose her video for my task.
Before I start to
analyze the video, I would like to give little information about who she is and
what Billboard Indonesia is.
Niki Zefanya
Niki Zefanya, her full name is Nicole Zefanya. She was born 24 January 1999, she was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. She grew up listening to the 1990s R&B such as Destiny's Child and Aaliyah because of her mother. She gained her popularity with her covers and original songs on YouTube, gaining more than 40,000 subscribers. Now, she is an Indonesian singer, songwriter, and record producer under 88rising Entertainment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_(singer)
Billboard Indonesia
Billboard Indonesia Top 100 is a music charts for songs in Indonesia. This chart was composed by Billboard Indonesia, Nielsen Holdings and the Indonesian Recording Industry Association. Billboard Indonesia retrieves data for this charts from the music streaming platform, video streaming platform, radio and karaoke. Only songs with Indonesian lyrics or a mixture of Indonesian and foreign or regional languages can enter the Billboard Indonesia Top 100. This chart is published every Wednesday on the official Billboard Indonesia website and social media. https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Indonesia_Top_100
Then, now I start to
give some information about the detail of video.
Details of video:
Title : NIKI Ingin Kolaborasi dengan Nadin dan Tulus - #MusicTalks
Date published: July 4, 2019
YouTube channel: Billboard Indonesia
Link of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7gKWdVUWOA
Let’s get to analyze
the video based on characteristics that belong to the sociolinguistics course.
I have watched her
video on YouTube and I found some of aspects that belong to the
sociolinguistics course. However, I did not know exactly who was asking questions
during the interview, is that a woman or a man. So I just focus on Niki
Zefanya.
The aspects that belong
to the sociolinguistics course based on the video are:
Why code-mixing, because she was unconscious mix her languages when answered questions from the interviewer. The description in the YouTube channel explained that Niki would be interviewed and answered questions using Bahasa. However, she was unconscious using English during the interview section.
2. She is bilingual.
Absolutely, because she is an Indonesian but becomes a singer in U.S, of course she can speaks two languages. I do not know how languages that she can speaks. As long as I know from the video, she can speaks two languages, Bahasa and English. So, that’s why I wrote that she is bilingual.
3. Language shift especially in Demographic factors.
In the video, Niki often mixed her language from Bahasa to English. I thought the reason why she often mixed her language because she usually use English to communicate in U.S. That is why when she was asked to answered questions with Bahasa like the description of the YouTube channel, but she still use English and mixed both languages. So the demographic factors very affect her language when she speaks.
4. Gender and Age (Explanations
of Woman’s Linguistics Behavior)
Based on the video, I could see that Niki was so good when answered every questions that was given by the interviewer. Besides, she is truly good at answering questions, it is also the thing that is in the explanation of woman’s linguistic behavior. In sociolinguistics, women are usually answering every questions very good. They have a lot of interesting words and they can speak it very good. That's why in the video, Niki was very good, though she was very good answering every questions during an intervuew section.
That is all about my analysis of Niki Zefanya’s interview video based on the aspects in sociolinguistic. I hope that information will be useful for you! I will be back!
Thank you very much for reading this!
