[lg policy] [New book announcement] Language, migration and identity: Neighborhood talk in Indonesia

[Harold Schiffman]

ForwardedFrom: Zane Goebel <Z.Goebel at latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:35 PM
  [New book announcement] Language, migration and identity: Neighborhood
talk in Indonesia
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Dear Colleagues,

Just to let you know about my recently published book (details below), which
may be of interest.

Best wishes.

Zane

Goebel, Z. (2010). Language, migration and identity: Neighborhood talk in
Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

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.

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Dr Zane Goebel
Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies
School of Social Sciences,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086 Australia
Telephone: +61 3 9479-1396
Fax: +61 3 9479 2705
Email: z.goebel at latrobe.edu.au<mailto:z.goebel at latrobe.edu.au>
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/socsci/staff/goebel/goebel.html
<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/socsci/staff/goebel/goebel.html>



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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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