Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 18)
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998
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- Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 18)
- Author
- Kuipers, Joel C.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year
- 1998
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521624959
- ISBN 13
- 9780521624954
The rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of Indonesia has diminished the significance of local languages. On the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech, but has also given rise to new and hybrid forms of poetic expression. This book analyzes language change in relation to political marginality, revealing that political coercion or cognitive process of "style reduction" may offer a partial explanation, but equally important is the role of linguistic ideologies.
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Kuipers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University.
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