Contact Talk

The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-37075-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology. It does so using case studies of actual everyday language practices from an extremely understudied yet incredibly important area of the Global South: Indonesia. In doing so, it provides a rich set of studies that model and explain complex linguistic anthropological analysis in engaging and easily understood ways.

As a book that is both accessible for undergraduate students and enlightening for graduate students through to senior professors, this book problematizes a wide range of assumptions. The diversity of settings and methodologies used in this book surpass many recent collections that attempt to address issues surrounding contemporary processes of diversification given rapid ongoing social change. In focusing on the trees, so to speak, the collection as a whole also enables readers to see the forest. This approach provides a rare insight into relationships between everyday language practices, social change, and the ever-present and ongoing processes of nation-building.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goebel, Zane

Cole, Deborah

Manns, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theorizing the Semiotic Complexity of Contact Talk: Contact Registers and Scalar Shifters

Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns

2. Indonesia and Indonesian

Howard Manns, Deborah Cole and Zane Goebel

3. Reentering the Margins? The Scale of "Local Language" in a Decentralizing Indonesia

Adam Harr

4. Moving Languages: Bivalency and Scalar Shifters in Central Javanese Language Ecologies

Lauren Zentz

5. From "Top-down" to "Bottom-up": The New Order’s Vertical Synchronicity and the Vintage Aesthetics of the Margins in Post-Suharto Political Oratory

Aurora Donzelli

6. Revaluing and Rescaling National and Ethnic Language Boundaries in Online Discourse

Howard Manns and Simon Musgrave

7. Adolescent Interaction, Local Languages and Peripherality in Teen Fiction

Dwi Noverini Djenar

8. Modeling Contact Talk on Television

Zane Goebel

9. Localizing Person Reference among Indonesian Youth

Michael C. Ewing

10. Revaluing Papuan Malay

Izak Morin and Zane Goebel

11. The Emergent Selectivity of Semiotically Playful Utterances

Deborah Cole

12. Coda

Zane Goebel

Über Autor(innen)

Zane Goebel is Associate Professor in Indonesian and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.

Deborah Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Communication, College of Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Howard Manns is Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.