Words in Motion
Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia
Distributed for National University of Singapore Press
Words in Motion
Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia
320 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Asian Studies: Southeast Asia and Australia
Language and Linguistics: Anthropological/Sociological Aspects of Language
Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction Fluid Transitions in an Era of Reform
Keith Foulcher
Chapter 1 Ilfil Gue Sama Elu! (I’ve Had It With You!): Swear-Words in Contemporary Indonesian Youth Slang
Untung Yuwono
Chapter 2 Foreign Languages and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Indonesian Fiction: Redefining Indonesian Identity after the New Order
Manneke Budiman
Chapter 3 Emerging from Dire Straits: Post-New Order Developments in Javanese Language and Literature
George Quinn
Chapter 4 Regional Languages and Decentralisation in Post-New Order Indonesia: The Case of Sundanese
Mikihiro Moriyama
Chapter 5 How Universal is the Concept of Multilingualism?: Minority Language Speakers in Eastern Indonesia
Asako Shiohara
Chapter 6 Language Use and Attitudes to Language in Multilingual North Sulawesi: A Sociolinguistic Survey in the Bantik-Speaking Area
Atsuko Utsumi
Chapter 7 Language and Social Hierarchy: Interaction between Balinese-Indonesian Codemixing and the Use of Balinese Honorifics
Mayuko Hara
Chapter 8 National/Local Languages and Youth: A Case Study from Bali
Haruya Kagami
Chapter 9 Chinese Indonesians who Study Mandarin: A Quest for “Chineseness”?
Koji Tsuda
Chapter 10 Chinese in the Linguistic Landscape of Jakarta: Language Use and Signs of Change
Yumi Kitamura
Chapter 11 What’s in a Name?: Referring to the President in the Indonesian Media
Dwi Noverini Djenar
Chapter 12 Going Against the Tide: The Politics of Language Standardization in Indonesia
Jan van der Putten
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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