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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      10 September 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511558191
      9780521624084
      9780521624954
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558191
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 204 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 204 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Asian Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology
      Series:
      Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (18)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Asian Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (18)
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    Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been described as the 'miracle of the developing world'. Among the Weyewa, on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech, which until recently was an important source of authority, tradition, and identity. But it has also given rise to new and hybrid forms of poetic expression. This first study to analyse language change in relation to political marginality argues that political coercion or cognitive process of 'style reduction' may partially explain what has happened, but equally important in language shift is the role of linguistic ideologies.

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    ‘Neatly orchestrating his analysis with admirable concision and lucidity, Kuipers has composed an insightful study that is thoroughly accessible to any reader interested in the shifting nexus between language and power.’

    Benjamin G. Zimmer Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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