Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries

"This book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology. It does so using cases studies of actual everyday language practices from an extremely understudied, yet incredibly important area of the global South, Indonesia. In doing s...

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Körperschaft: Margins, Hubs, and Peripheries in a Decentralizing Indonesia (Veranstaltung) Hongkong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Goebel, Zane (HerausgeberIn), Cole, Deborah (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"This book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology. It does so using cases 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"--
Beschreibung:"All of these papers in this volume were initially presented as part of the symposium, "Margins, hubs, and peripheries in a decentralizing Indonesia", convened by Zane Goebel at the Sociolinguistics of Globalization conference held at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong on the 3-6 June 2015"--Acknowledgements
Beschreibung:vi, 204 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9781138370746
9781138370753