Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia : the changing nature of ritual speech on the Islan...
Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia : the changing nature of ritual speech on the Islan...
Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia : the changing nature of ritual speech on the Island of Sumba / Joel C. Kuipers.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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1998.
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N306.4408999/1
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English
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xvii, 183 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality -- 3. Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba -- 4. Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness -- 5...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
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1998.
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Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but in general 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...
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Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia : the changing nature of ritual speech on the Island of Sumba / Joel C. Kuipers.
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Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 18.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index.
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N306.4408999/1
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74Vvr80j78oy
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0521624959 (pb)
9780521624084 (hardbound)
0521624088 (hardbound)
9780521624954 (pb)
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306.44089992205986
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991011421019702626
