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Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia

Rubriek	Indonesië & Nederlands Indië
Boeknummer	#212047
Titel	Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Auteur	Kuipers, Joel C.
Boektype	Paperback
Jaar van uitgave	1998
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
ISBN10	0521624959
ISBN13	9780521624954
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 18
Samenvatting	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 described as the 'miracle of the developing world'. Among the Weyewa, on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech, which until recently was an important source of authority, tradition, and identity. But it has also given rise to new and hybrid forms of poetic expression. This first study to analyse language change in relation to political marginality argues that political coercion or cognitive process of 'style reduction' may partially explain what has happened, but equally important in language shift is the role of linguistic ideologies.
Pagina's	183
Staat van het boek	Goed — Ex libris stamp on title
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