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- Condition
- Book Title
- Speaking Through the Silence : Narratives, Social Conventions, an
- ISBN
- 9780195108880
- Subject Area
- Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Speaking Through the Silence : Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6.4 in
- Subject
- Southeast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese), Speech, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Series
- Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser.
- Type
- Language Course
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 22.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 276 Pages
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Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women use conversation to construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does so by uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks. In particular, she focuses on identifying the silences, the "unsaid", and reveals both the structure and function of silence in terms of its reference to local meaning. The force of the Javanese language as used in everyday interactions is shown to be an extremely potent philosophical entity as well as a means of social control. Thus, this book 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195108884
ISBN-13
9780195108880
eBay Product ID (ePID)
640664
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Publication Name
Speaking Through the Silence : Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java
Language
English
Subject
Southeast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese), Speech, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
1998
Type
Language Course
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
97-029990
Reviews
"...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions tounderstanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how modelsof social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing andnecessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of a culture--that ofJava--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed stateculture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia, "...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading. Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists should all find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedly find its well deserved place within the canon of texts on Indonesia."--Inside Indonesia "...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions to understanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how models of social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing and necessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of a culture--that of Java--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed state culture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia, "...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading. Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists should all find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedly find its well deserved place within the canon of texts on Indonesia."--Inside Indonesia"...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions to understanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how models of social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing and necessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of a culture--that of Java--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed state culture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia"...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading. Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists should all find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedly find its well deserved place within the canon of texts on Indonesia."--Inside Indonesia"...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions to understanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how models of social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing and necessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of a culture--that of Java--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed state culture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia"Capturing the effects of state ideology and political oppression in the minite particulars of everyday talk poses enormous ethnographic and political challenges, ones not usually confronted when anthropological linguistics is wedded to the formal and functional analysis of discourse. Berman's effort to disclose the fundamentally political nature of speech and the fundamentally lingistic nature of power deserves the attention of anyone drawn to an ethnographicunderstanding of language and power."--Anthropological Linguistics, "...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading. Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists should all find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedly find its well deserved place within the canon of texts on Indonesia."--Inside Indonesia"...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions to understanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how models of social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing and necessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of a culture--that of Java--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed state culture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia, "Capturing the effects of state ideology and political oppression in theminite particulars of everyday talk poses enormous ethnographic and politicalchallenges, ones not usually confronted when anthropological linguistics iswedded to the formal and functional analysis of discourse. Berman's effort todisclose the fundamentally political nature of speech and the fundamentallylingistic nature of power deserves the attention of anyone drawn to anethnographic understanding of language and power."--AnthropologicalLinguistics, "...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading.Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists shouldall find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedlyfind its well deserved place within the canon of texts on Indonesia."--InsideIndonesia, "Capturing the effects of state ideology and political oppression in the minite particulars of everyday talk poses enormous ethnographic and political challenges, ones not usually confronted when anthropological linguistics is wedded to the formal and functional analysis of discourse. Berman'seffort to disclose the fundamentally political nature of speech and the fundamentally lingistic nature of power deserves the attention of anyone drawn to an ethnographic understanding of language and power."--Anthropological Linguistics, "...Berman's book is one of the most useful and original contributions to understanding Javanese society, particularly in terms of explaining how models of social organisation imply power relationships...[It] offers a refreshing and necessary insight into the most fundamental aspect of aculture--that of Java--which, extrapolated, is the guiding principle of an imposed state culture--that of Indonesia."--Asian Studies Association of Australia, "...Bermans work is thorough and detailed and it rewards close reading. Indonesianist academics and more general anthropologists and linguists should all find this book essential reading. It is a strong work and will undoubtedly find its well deserved place within the canon of texts onIndonesia."--Inside Indonesia
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.44/5982
Lc Classification Number
Pl5169.B47 1998
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