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Language and Superdiversity - Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
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Language and Superdiversity - Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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Scholars of language ideology have encouraged us to reflect on and
explore where social categories come from, how they have been
reproduced, and whether and to what extent they are relevant to
everyday interactional practices. Taking up on these issues, this
book focuses on how ethnicity has been semiotically constructed,
valued, and reproduced in Indonesia since Dutch colonial times, and
how this category is drawn upon in everyday talk. In doing so, this
book also seeks to engage with scholarship on superdiversity while
highlighting some points of engagement with work on ideas about
community. The book draws upon a broad range of scholarship on
Indonesia, recordings of Indonesian television from the mid-1990s
onwards, and recordings of the talk of Indonesian students living
in Japan. It is argued that some of the main mechanisms for the
reproduction and revaluation of ethnicity and its links with
linguistic form include waves of technological innovations that
bring people into contact (e.g. changes in transportation
infrastructure, introduction of print media, television, radio, the
internet, etc.), and the increasing use of one-to-many
participation frameworks such as school classrooms and the mass
media. In examining the talk of sojourning Indonesians the book
goes on to explore how ideologies about ethnicity are used to
establish and maintain convivial social relations while in Japan.
Maintaining such relationships is not a trivial thing and it is
argued that the pursuit of conviviality is an important practice
because of its relationship with broader concerns about eking out a
living.
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