Javanese - A Cultural Approach

Foreign language lessons often provide translations into a foreign language of phrases students would normally use in their native language and cultural setting. Particularly when studying a non-Western language, such direct translation is very misleading. Students must instead learn the conventions that guide human interactions, so they know both what to say and how to say it. In this text, therefore, the sociological context of Javanese is explained as thoroughly as Javanese grammar. The book presents Javanese in its full complexity and range in order to illustrate a cultural appoach to a non-Western language; it will therefore be of interest not only to language learners, but to linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and many others.

Summary

Foreign language lessons often provide translations into a foreign language of phrases students would normally use in their native language and cultural setting. Such direct translation is very misleading. Students must instead learn the conventions that guide human interactions, so they know both what to say and how to say it.

Product details

• Authors: W. Keeler, Ward Keeler
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.1992
• EAN: 9780896801219
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-121-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 762 g
• Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series; Papers in International Studie; Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series; Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies