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In accounts of ethnographic fieldwork and textbooks on ethnography,
we often find the notion of rapport used to describe social
relationships in the field. Frequently, rapport between researcher
and researched is invoked as a prerequisite to be achieved before
fieldwork can start, or used as evidence to judge the value and
robustness of an ethnography. With few exceptions, and despite
regular pleas to do so, ethnographers continue to avoid presenting
any discursive evidence of what rapport might look like from an
interactional perspective. In a sense, the uncritical acceptance of
rapport as a fieldwork goal and measure has helped hide the
discursive work that goes on in the field. In turn, this has
privileged ideas about identity as portable rather than "portable
and emergent", and reports of social life as more important than
how such reports emerge. Written for all those who engage or plan
to engage in ethnographic fieldwork, this collection examines how
social relationships dialogically emerge in fieldwork settings.
In accounts of ethnographic fieldwork and textbooks on ethnography,
we often find the notion of rapport used to describe social
relationships in the field. Frequently, rapport between researcher
and researched is invoked as a prerequisite to be achieved before
fieldwork can start, or used as evidence to judge the value and
robustness of an ethnography. With few exceptions, and despite
regular pleas to do so, ethnographers continue to avoid presenting
any discursive evidence of what rapport might look like from an
interactional perspective. In a sense, the uncritical acceptance of
rapport as a fieldwork goal and measure has helped hide the
discursive work that goes on in the field. In turn, this has
privileged ideas about identity as portable rather than "portable
and emergent", and reports of social life as more important than
how such reports emerge. Written for all those who engage or plan
to engage in ethnographic fieldwork, this collection examines how
social relationships dialogically emerge in fieldwork settings.
Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting
junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary
thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology.
It does so using case studies of actual everyday language practices
from an extremely understudied yet incredibly important area of the
Global South: Indonesia. In doing so, it provides a rich set of
studies that model and explain complex linguistic anthropological
analysis in engaging and easily understood ways. As a book that is
both accessible for undergraduate students and enlightening for
graduate students through to senior professors, this book
problematizes a wide range of assumptions. The diversity of
settings and methodologies used in this book surpass many recent
collections that attempt to address issues surrounding contemporary
processes of diversification given rapid ongoing social change. In
focusing on the trees, so to speak, the collection as a whole also
enables readers to see the forest. This approach provides a rare
insight into relationships between everyday language practices,
social change, and the ever-present and ongoing processes of
nation-building.
Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting
junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary
thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology.
It does so using case studies of actual everyday language practices
from an extremely understudied yet incredibly important area of the
Global South: Indonesia. In doing so, it provides a rich set of
studies that model and explain complex linguistic anthropological
analysis in engaging and easily understood ways. As a book that is
both accessible for undergraduate students and enlightening for
graduate students through to senior professors, this book
problematizes a wide range of assumptions. The diversity of
settings and methodologies used in this book surpass many recent
collections that attempt to address issues surrounding contemporary
processes of diversification given rapid ongoing social change. In
focusing on the trees, so to speak, the collection as a whole also
enables readers to see the forest. This approach provides a rare
insight into relationships between everyday language practices,
social change, and the ever-present and ongoing processes of
nation-building.
"Indonesian Flash Cards" is an excellent new Indonesian language
learning resource for beginning students of Indonesian.
Before heading out to Bali, the best way to learn Indonesian is to
start practicing with these flashcards and give a boost to your
Indonesian language skills. Each card features definitions, related
words, sample sentences, and thematic grouping. This flash cards
kit contains: 300 hole-punched flash cards featuring the most
commonly used words. Native speaker audio recordings of 1,200+
Indonesian words and phrases. A 32 page study booklet with sorting
indexes and practice tips. Each card has one main vocabulary item
and several derived words. Ideal for beginning students of
Indonesian and anyone living in the country.These Indonesian
flashcards are an excellent way of gradually increasing your
Indonesian vocabulary. Their compact format makes them easy to
carry around with you as you go about your regular routine, and you
can make use of any spare minutes throughout the day to test
yourself or take the next step in your Indonesian language
learning. The key to building a working vocabulary is frequent
exposure rather than prolonged study sessions, and with these flash
cards it is easy to make good use of any odd minutes that would
otherwise be wasted--on the bus, standing in line, or over a cup of
coffee. These flash cards will build your vocabulary naturally and
painlessly in three separate ways: The flash cards are divided into
six thematic groups related to topics that you are likely to want
to discuss: Basic Vocabulary, Arts and Entertainment, Society and
Government, Economy and Commerce, Travel, and Education and Work.
In addition to the main Indonesian vocabulary item, all flash cards
also list at least one related word. It is a characteristic feature
of the Indonesian language that verbs and nouns are commonly
derived from root words by the addition of one or more prefixes or
suffixes. Being aware of the way in which these compounds are
formed is a useful step in enlarging one's vocabulary, and gives
you a good idea of the idiomatic meaning of the derived forms. The
main vocabulary item on each flash car is illustrated by a short
example sentence showing it being used in a typical situation.
These sample sentences often also show the grammatical structure in
which the word is commonly used, other Indonesian words with which
it is often found in close connection, or commonly used
collocations or context.
How do certain ideas and practices become socially valued in
particular times and places? Why do we see some countries as having
better governance or leadership than others? In Global Leadership
Talk, Zane Goebel addresses these questions through a study of
leadership language in the uniquely diverse post-colonial nation of
Indonesia. This book examines global flows of ideologies about
leadership and good governance, how these ideologies are localized
in Indonesia, and how all of this related to changing political,
bureaucratic, and market regimes in Indonesia between 1998 and
2004. Drawing on five months of fieldwork and a corpus of hundreds
of online newspaper articles regarding the Indonesian bureaucracy,
Goebel analyzes how leadership ideas expressed in the early
twenty-first century have been re-used and redefined in the
media-and most importantly, how and why these ideas were received
and believed in local face-to-face talk in the Indonesian civil
service. Deftly engaging with decades of theoretical innovation,
from indexicality to enregisterment, from globalization to
superdiversity, Goebel moves beyond his empirical analysis to argue
for a new methodology that constantly moves between data from
different times and places. Both concretely and conceptually,
Goebel shows how communicative events are connected, how this
impacts the gathering and interpretation of data, and how this
approach is key for understanding the sociolinguistic complexity of
today's world.
To do ethnography, a researcher must have rapport with research
subjects. But what is rapport? Ethnography and ethnographic methods
have increasingly become a feature of social inquiry in general and
sociolinguistics in particular, and rapport is generally considered
a prerequisite for fieldwork. And yet, unlike related terms such as
"communication" and "phatic communion," this concept has remained
largely unexamined. Reimagining Rapport turns a critical eye to the
use of the term "rapport" across disciplines. The collection
analyzes the very idea of rapport, both exploring how it has been
shaped by historical forces and actors within sociocultural
anthropology, and questioning its usefulness. Rather than viewing
the term as simply denoting a type of positive social relationship
that needs to be formed between researcher and consultant before
research can begin, this book invites us to reimagine rapport
theoretically, methodologically, and meta-methodologically. Zane
Goebel and other leading sociolinguists challenge readers to think
about how rapport has been constructed within these disciplines,
and ultimately to see rapport as an emergent, co-constructed social
relationship that is actively built during situated multimodal
encounters. The contributors collectively examine the role of
ideology and mediation in the construction of rapport, and argue
that reconceptualizing research-subject relationships is essential
for establishing more sophisticated ways of understanding,
interpreting, and representing research context. A valuable
resource for scholars and students of sociolinguistics and
linguistic anthropology-as well as for others engaged in
ethnographic fieldwork-Reimagining Rapport is the first collection
to provide an in-depth investigation of this critically important
but previously unexamined concept.
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.
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.
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