Full Description
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.
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
