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Consequences of Contact - Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies (Paperback, New)
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Consequences of Contact - Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies (Paperback, New)
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The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic
diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social
life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones,
where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas;
between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua
franca, colonial, and local language varieties. Contact between
colonial and post-colonial governments, religious institutions, and
indigenous communities has spurred profound social change,
irrevocably transforming linguistic ideologies and practices.
Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic analyses, this edited
volume examines situations of intertwined linguistic and cultural
change unfolding in specific Pacific locations in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its overarching concern
is with the multiple ways that processes of historical change have
shaped and been shaped by linguistic ideologies reflexive
sensibilities about languages and language useheld by Pacific
peoples and other agents of change. The essays demonstrate that
language and linguistic practices are linked to changing
consciousness of self and community through notions of agency,
morality, affect, authority, and authenticity.
In times of cultural contact, communities often experience
language change at an accelerated rate. This is particularly so in
small-scale communities where innovations and continuity routinely
depend on the imagination, creativity, and charisma of fewer
individuals. The essays in this volume provide evidence of this
potential and a record of their voices, as they document new types
of local actors, e.g., pastors, Bible translators, teachers,
politicalactivists, spirit mediums, and tour guides, some of whom
introduce, innovate, legitimate, or resist new ideas and ways to
express them through language. Drawing on and transforming
metalinguistic concepts, local actors (re)shape language,
reproducing and changing the communicative economy. In the process,
they cultivate new cultural conceptions of language, for example,
as a medium for communicating religious knowledge and political
authority, and for constructing social boundaries and transforming
relationships of domination.
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