Language and Superdiversity: Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad

by Zane Goebel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199795428
• ISBN13: 9780199795420
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"