Dwi Noverini Djenar

PhD (University of Melbourne), MA (La Trobe University), Dra (Gajah Mada University) (Cum Laude), Dip Ed (University of Melbourne)
Lecturer
Room 645, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9036 9512

Novi Djenar is a linguist specializing in Indonesian language. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2009 she taught at La Trobe University (Melbourne) for 19 years. Novi’s current research focuses on the interface between spoken and written discourse. She is presently working on a linguistic description of the language of Indonesian youth fiction, examining the transposition of colloquial Indonesian into a written variety. Her concurrent research looks at linguistic representations of ‘place’ in conversational narrative.

Research Areas

• The interface between speech and writing
• Indonesian youth fiction
• Indonesian conversational narratives
• Person-reference in Indonesian
• ‘Place’ in spoken and written discourse

Current Projects

• The language of Indonesian youth fiction
• ‘Place’ in Indonesian conversational narratives

Selected Publications

Books

• Djenar, D. N. 2007. Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Perspectives of Preposition Use: A Study of Indonesian Locatives. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• Djenar, D. N. 2003. A Student’s Guide to Indonesian Grammar. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

• Djenar, D. N. (forthcoming). ‘Split’ semantic range and lexical borrowing: Unifying locational and directional senses of Indonesian preposition pada. In Hubert Cuyckens, Walter de Mulder, Michèle Goyens, and Tanya Mortelmans, eds. Variation and Change in Adpositions of Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Djenar, D. N. (forthcoming). The merging of oral and literate strategies in Indonesian youth fiction, NUSA series, volume on Indonesian dialects and registers, edited by Don van Minde.

Articles

• Djenar, D. N. 2008. Which self? Pronominal choice, modernity, and self-categorizations. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 189: 31-54.
• Djenar, D. N. 2008. On the development of a colloquial writing style: Examining the language of Indonesian teen literature. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania) 164(2/3): 238-268.
• Djenar, D. N. 2007. Self-reference and its variation in Indonesian. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Vol.4, Supp.1, pp. 23-40 (DEST accredited joint publication by Asian Studies Association of Australia and National University of Singapore; http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg)
• Djenar, D. N. 2006. Patterns and variation of address terms in colloquial Indonesian. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29(2): 22.1-22.16.
• Djenar, D. N. 2006. On the multifunctionality of compound prepositions in Indonesian. Oceanic Linguistics 45(2): 339-363.
• Djenar, D. N. 2001. Indonesian “Locative” pronouns: Deictic or anaphoric? Australian Journal of Linguistics 21(1): 49-71.

Edited Books

• Sneddon, J. N. (in press). Indonesian Reference Grammar, 2nd edition. Edited by Alexander Adelaar, Dwi Noverini Djenar, and Michael Ewing. St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin.

Book Review

• Djenar, D. N. 2009. Ab Massier, The voice of the law in transition: Indonesian jurists and their languages, 1915-2000. In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 165(1).

Edited Monograph

• Djenar, D. N. 1994. Sukarno’s fire: Metaphor in political oration. Asian Studies Papers – Research Series 3. Melbourne: School of Asian Studies, La Trobe University.

Teaching Areas

• Indonesian Language

Conference activity

• ‘Narrative of place in Indonesian conversation’, 13th International Symposium of Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), Senggigi Lombok, Indonesia, 6-7 June 2009.
• ‘Colloquializing narratives: Examining the language of Indonesian youth fiction’, Indonesian Council Open Conference, The University of Sydney, 15-17 July 2009.

Other professional contributions

• Member of the Editorial Board, journal Linguistik Indonesia (published by the Indonesian Linguistic Society)