Overview

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology. It does so using case studies of actual everyday language practices from an extremely understudied yet incredibly important area of the Global South: Indonesia. In doing so, it provides a rich set of studies that model and explain complex linguistic anthropological analysis in engaging and easily understood ways. As a book that is both accessible for undergraduate students and enlightening for graduate students through to senior professors, this book problematizes a wide range of assumptions. The diversity of settings and methodologies used in this book surpass many recent collections that attempt to address issues surrounding contemporary processes of diversification given rapid ongoing social change. In focusing on the trees, so to speak, the collection as a whole also enables readers to see the forest. This approach provides a rare insight into relationships between everyday language practices, social change, and the ever-present and ongoing processes of nation-building.

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Author:   Zane Goebel (University of Queensland, Australia) ,  Deborah Cole (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Howard Manns (Monash University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781138370746

ISBN 10:   1138370746
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   26 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Theorizing the Semiotic Complexity of Contact Talk: Contact Registers and Scalar Shifters Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns 2. Indonesia and Indonesian Howard Manns, Deborah Cole and Zane Goebel 3. Reentering the Margins? The Scale of ""Local Language"" in a Decentralizing Indonesia Adam Harr 4. Moving Languages: Bivalency and Scalar Shifters in Central Javanese Language Ecologies Lauren Zentz 5. From ""Top-down"" to ""Bottom-up"": The New Order’s Vertical Synchronicity and the Vintage Aesthetics of the Margins in Post-Suharto Political Oratory Aurora Donzelli 6. Revaluing and Rescaling National and Ethnic Language Boundaries in Online Discourse Howard Manns and Simon Musgrave 7. Adolescent Interaction, Local Languages and Peripherality in Teen Fiction Dwi Noverini Djenar 8. Modeling Contact Talk on Television Zane Goebel 9. Localizing Person Reference among Indonesian Youth Michael C. Ewing 10. Revaluing Papuan Malay Izak Morin and Zane Goebel 11. The Emergent Selectivity of Semiotically Playful Utterances Deborah Cole 12. Coda Zane Goebel"

Reviews

This is an immensely important volume in which a synthesis is achieved of decades of theoretical debate, now integrated in an original and innovative framework for a sociolinguistics of complexity. Offering a range of richly documented studies within a coherent framework, this book is compelling reading for anyone interested in the contemporary dynamics of language and society. - Professor Jan Blommaert, Director of Babylon, Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands This book shows that although Indonesia has arguably the world's most successful national language in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries, the problem of contact languages has not been solved . With ethnographically rich examples and introducing the concepts of scalar shifter and contact register , the authors show beautifully how language remains a pivotal resource for the construction of difference and sameness in the midst of massive decentralization and globalization. - Joel Kuipers, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University

Author Information

Zane Goebel is Associate Professor in Indonesian and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia. Deborah Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Communication, College of Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Howard Manns is Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

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