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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• Autori: Joel C. Kuipers, Joel C. (George Washington University Kuipers
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.09.1998
• EAN: 9780521624954
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62495-4
• Pagine: 204
• Serie: Studies in the Social & Cultur
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata