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Speaking Through the Silence - Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java (Hardcover, New)
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Speaking Through the Silence - Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 19
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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.
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