Speaking through the Silence Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java

Speaking through the Silence Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java

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Berman, Laine A.
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780195355222
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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 &quote;unsaid&quote;, 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.
EAN 9780195355222
ISBN 0195355229
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Oxford University Press
Datum vydání 8. října 1998
Jazyk English
Země United States
Autoři Berman, Laine A.
Série Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
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