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

A study of the effects of the spread of Indonesian on local ritual speech on Sumba island.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joel C. Kuipers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521624084
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62408-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 489 g
• Series: Studies in the Social & Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology