Pacific Linguistics - recent publication

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian

James Neil Sneddon

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently  
equivalent to about US$ 0.79).
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Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian

James Neil Sneddon

PL 581

This book aims to describe aspects of the Indonesian language as  
spoken by educated Jakartans in everyday interactions. This style of  
language is in many ways significantly different from the formal  
language of government and education, to the extent that it deserves  
separate consideration. While formal Indonesian has been the subject  
of a considerable amount of description very little attention has  
been paid to informal styles of the language. The variety described  
here, Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian, is the prestige variety of  
colloquial Indonesian and is becoming the standard informal style.  
The description and texts in following chapters are drawn from  
recordings of natural speech of educated people living in Jakarta.

While the book aims to inform those with a background in linguistics  
the needs of teachers and learners with little or no knowledge of  
linguistics is always borne in mind.  The work thus does not consider  
theoretical linguistic issues nor use technical terms which would not  
be readily understood by most readers.


2005  ISBN 0858835711 xi + 286 pp
Prices: Australia AUD$59.9 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$54.50
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