Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia by Zane Goebel

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Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation?

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While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm and where distinctions between newcomers and old timers changes regularly. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation? Starting from a view of language-society dynamics as enregisterment, Zane Goebel uses interactional sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication to explore how language is used in this contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations. It will be welcomed by researchers and students working in the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the anthropology of migration and Asian studies.

Author Biography

Zane Goebel is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Graduate School of Letters at Nagoya University, Japan.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Long term processes of enregisterment; 3. Enregistering local practices and local spaces; 4. Linguistic signs, alternation, crossing and adequation; 5. Women, narratives, identity and expectations in Ward 8; 6. Learning to become a good ward member; 7. Emerging identities in a monthly Ward 8 male meeting; 8. Chineseness as deviance; 9. Language ideologies and practice in Ward 5; 10. Conclusions.

Review

'I highly recommend this work … documents the interplay between social relations, identity and language use in Central Java, while arguing that conversational participants establish and maintain social relations through the development of SRs and in so doing create identities and define expectations for moral behaviour.' Ellen Rafferty, Asian Studies Review'[This] book offers the reader a window on a corner of the earth where language and identity go hand in hand, a fact further brought into relief by ongoing migration and the resultant readjustments in fashioning individual identities and imagining the social fabric.' Kanavillil Rajagopalan, elanguage.net'A valuable addition to the body of work that exists on language in Indonesia … Goebel draws on an extensive and complex body of theoretical work, but his writing style and attention to detail make it possible for a reader with little prior exposure to grasp his main arguments.' William M. Cotter, PhD student, University of Arizona

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Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

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'[This] book offers the reader a window on a corner of the earth where language and identity go hand in hand, a fact further brought into relief by ongoing migration and the resultant readjustments in fashioning individual identities and imagining the social fabric.' Kanavillil Rajagopalan, elanguage.net

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Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

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Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation?

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Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation?

Details ISBN0521519918 Author Zane Goebel Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2010 ISBN-10 0521519918 ISBN-13 9780521519915 Format Hardcover Media Book Short Title LANGUAGE MIGRATION & IDENTITY Language English Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2010-07-29 Pages 240 Residence AT DEWEY 306.4409598 Affiliation La Trobe University, Victoria UK Release Date 2010-07-29 AU Release Date 2010-07-29 NZ Release Date 2010-07-29 Illustrations 2 Maps; 7 Halftones, unspecified; 20 Line drawings, unspecified Alternative 9780511778247 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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