Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia - The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba

Zusammenfassung The spread of the national language in Indonesia has threatened local languages. On Sumba a tradition of ritual poetic speech has waned! although new hybrid forms of poetic expression are emerging. Political coercion is a partial explanation! but so is the role of linguistic ideologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality; 2. Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba; 3. Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness; 4. Ideologies of personal naming and language shift; 5. From miracles to classrooms: changing forms of erasure in the learning of ritual speech; 6. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Joel C. Kuipers, Joel C. (George Washington University Kuipers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.1998
• EAN: 9780521624954
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62495-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Studies in the Social & Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology