Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia : the changing nature of ritual speech on the Island of Sumba /
Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality
- 3. Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba
- 4. Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness
- 5. Ideologies of personal naming and language shift
- 6. From miracles to classrooms: changing forms of erasure in the learning of ritual speech
- 7. Conclusions.
