Speaking Through the Silence - Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java (Hardcover, New)

Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does this by identifying the silences, the "unsaid," and by revealing both the structure and function of silence in terms of its indexical reference to local meaning. It is here that the force of the Javanese language as used in everyday interaction shows itself to be an extremely potent philosophical entity as well as a means of social control. Thus, at least in regard to the urban poor, the book boldly questions the difference between traditional definitions of Javanese elegance and oppression. This study will contribute to our understanding of the social consequences of language use, to the linguistic knowledge of Indonesia and Java, and to such basic linguistic issues as narrative structure and function, speech levels and styles, and indexicality features.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 19
Release date:	October 1998
First published:	October 1998
Authors:	Laine Berman (Lecturer, School of Australian and International Studies)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	274
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-510888-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-19-510888-4
Barcode:	9780195108880

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