Shifting Languages
Shifting Languages
Until recently, Indonesian, the national language of a vast, plural nation state, was spoken by very few of the Javanese who live in south-central Java. But the national language is now being learned, along with a national identity, and is the key vehicle for modernity and progress in these communities. Errington has written a fascinating account of the role of language in radical social transformation.
- A fresh look at the relationship between language and development
- Presents a comprehensive description of language as an object of social ideology, and the medium of social practice
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"This book is a major contribution that shows how such work can be done. It succeeds as a fully realized study of socially, culturally, and politically grounded language phenomena. This rich accomplishment is itself the very best argument for Errington's analytic position." Language in Society
"This book is a major contribution that shows how such work can be done. It succeeds as a fully realized study of socially, culturally, and politically grounded language phenomena. This rich accomplishment is itself the very best argument for Errington's analytic position." Language in Society
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May 2012Adobe eBook Reader
9781139238892
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2 maps 2 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A city, two hamlets, and the stage
- 3. Speech styles, hierarchies and communities
- 4. National development, national language
- 5. Public language and authority
- 6. Interactional and referential identities
- 7. Language contact and language salad
- 8. Speech modelling
- 9. Shifting styles and the modelling of internal states
- 10. Javanese-Indonesian code-switching
- 11. Shifting perspectives.
