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Author Goebel, Zane.

Title Language, migration, and identity : neighborhood talk in Indonesia / Zane Goebel
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Long term processes of enregisterment; 3. Enregistering local practices and local spaces; 4. Linguistic signs, alternation, crossing and adequation; 5. Women, narratives, identity and expectations in ward 8; 6. Learning to become a good ward member; 7. Emerging identities in a monthly ward 8 male meeting; 8. Chineseness as deviance; 9. Language ideologies and practice in ward 5; 10. Conclusions
Summary "While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm and where distinctions between newcomers and old timers changes regularly. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation? Starting from a view of language-society dynamics as enregisterment, Zane Goebel synthesizes a wide range of humanities scholarship with contemporary linguistic anthropology to explore how language is used in this contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations. It will be welcomed by researchers and students working in the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the anthropology of migration and Asian studies"--
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index
Subject Sociolinguistics -- Indonesia.
Communication and culture -- Indonesia -- Semarang.
Language and culture -- Indonesia.
Communication and culture -- Indonesia.
Ethnicity -- Indonesia.
Anthropological linguistics -- Indonesia.
Anthropological linguistics -- Indonesia -- Semarang.
Sociolinguistics -- Indonesia -- Semarang.
Ethnicity -- Indonesia -- Semarang.
Language and culture -- Indonesia -- Semarang.
SUBJECT Semarang (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046124 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
Semarang (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046124 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
LC no. 2010012535
ISBN 9780521519915 hardback
0521519918 hardback