NOTICE OF THESIS EXAM HAGUNG YUDISTIRA UTOMO

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NOTICE OF THESIS EXAM

 

 

 HAGUNG YUDISTIRA UTOMO

202300010007

 

 

JULY 14, 2026, 13:00 PM

Building C, 7th fl., Room: C706

 

Adviser           : Dr. Engliana

Examiners     : Prof. Dr. Setiono Sugiharto & Ekarina, Ph.D.

 

Title

  LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY AND TRANSLANGUAGING IN TRILINGUAL (INDONESIAN-ENGLISH-JAVANESE) POSTS ON VINCAYOO’S INSTAGRAM

ABSTRACT

This study investigates linguistic creativity and translanguaging in Vincanyoo’s trilingual Indonesian–English–Javanese Instagram videos. It aims to examine how translanguaging practices are manifested through verbal and multimodal resources and how these practices construct humour, linguistic creativity, and digital identity. This study employed a qualitative research design using multimodal discourse analysis. The data consisted of seven Instagram videos uploaded by Vincanyoo in 2025, supported by interview data with the content creator. The verbal data included spoken utterances in Indonesian, English, and Javanese, captions, hashtags, and emojis, while the multimodal data included gestures, gaze, facial expressions, body posture, costumes, props, settings, and digital framing. ELAN-assisted transcription was used to organize the data into time-based analytical tiers, allowing the analysis to connect spoken language with embodied and visual resources. The findings show that Vincanyoo’s translanguaging practices are manifested through Indonesian–English translanguaging, Indonesian–Javanese translanguaging, persona-based translanguaging, lexical borrowing, cultural translanguaging, prosodic exaggeration, and multimodal translanguaging. Indonesian functions as an accessibility bridge for wider audiences, English indexes modernity, coolness, elegance, and Westernized identity, while Javanese indexes local intimacy, emotional intensity, domestic authority, cultural authenticity, and humour. The study also reveals that humour and linguistic creativity are constructed through contrastive personas such as Ibu Barat, Ibu Jawa, Istri Barat, and Istri Jawa, supported by gestures, costumes, props, gaze, facial expressions, and digital framing. Therefore, this study concludes that Vincanyoo’s translanguaging is not simply language mixing, but a creative, cultural, affective, and multimodal practice. It contributes to translanguaging studies, digital sociolinguistics, and multimodal discourse analysis by showing that regional languages such as Javanese can function as central resources for humour, cultural pride, and digital identity construction in Indonesian social media discourse.

Keywords: translanguaging, linguistic creativity, trilingualism, multimodality, Instagram, Javanese