Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of SumbaIndonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but in general 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, an ethnic group living on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once-vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech used in prayers, songs, and myths, 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. In this first study to analyze language change in relation to political marginality, Joel Kuipers argues that political coercion or the cognitive process of "style reduction" may offer a partial explanation of what has happened, but equally important in language shift is the role of linguistic ideologies. |
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Table des matières
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IDEOLOGIES OF PERSONAL NAMING AND LANGUAGE SHIFT | 95 |
FROM MIRACLES TO CLASSROOMS CHANGING FORMS OF ERASURE IN THE LEARNING OF RITUAL SPEECH | 125 |
CONCLUSIONS | 149 |
NOTES | 156 |
APPENDIX | 162 |
REFERENCES | 165 |
INDEX | 176 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
ancestral villages anger angry audience authoritative authority autonomy bemos ceremonial Christian names clever code-switching colonial complete consonant length context cultural cunning Dappa described discourse Dutch East Indies economic elaborate elite emotional erasure example expression father feast forms genres GOLKAR horse humility identity important increasingly individual Indonesian Indonesian language Irvine island Japanese kabani-mbani Kaduku Kuipers laments language ideologies language shift lawiti learning Lende Mbatu linguistic change linguistic ideologies Luwu Malay Mambai marapu marginality mbani Mbora Kenda mediated milla missionaries modern name-seeking native ndara ndende ngara Ngongo Ombarande one's Onvlee orphan pdnde performance Plate political prestige names racehorses rajas relation relatively response ritual speakers ritual speech role Roos semantic singer social song speak status structure style subdistrict Sumbanese Sumbanese languages tamo tana teacher traditional verbal Waikabubak Waingapu water buffalo West Sumba Weyewa highlands Weyewa ritual Wielenga women words yawao zaizo
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Page 97 - that the act of naming belongs to a continuum in which there is an imperceptible passage from the act of signifying to the act of pointing
Page 18 - that index social groups or activities appear to be iconic representations of them - as if a linguistic feature somehow depicted or displayed a social
Page 69 - The [Indie] state drew its force from its imaginative energies, its semiotic capacity to make inequality enchant
Page 159 - Enjoyment of physical consumption is only a part of the service yielded by goods; the other
Page 15 - I believe the engineer got no hint of the anger and fear that had seized the community with the news of the transmigration agency's plans
Page 7 - feeling of inability or unwillingness to break up an object into smaller objects
Page 90 - percent votes for GOLKAR on the date of May 4, 1982. Sekarang adalah tanggung jawab kepala sekolah, kepala desa, guru-guru dan kepala lingkungan dalam bertanggung jawabnya seratus persenya GOLKAR, di dalam kemenangannya adalah satu-satunya jalur, suara kita yang kita sampaikan, kita dapat menyampaikan aspirasi kita di dalam menyampaikan segala keinginan kita kepada pihak atasan
Page 158 - the evolving empowerment of the autonomous reasoning individual within the framework of a legal bureaucratic state was the hallmark of modern citizenship. While Roman and Greek citizenship was guaranteed partly by cult participation and kinship ties, it eventually became, with the rise of burghers in the European cities, an individual contract with the state.
Page 84 - instructions of the village leaders. Whatever the case, on election day itself, the songs, cheering, and oratory ceased and men and women, some suckling their children, some old people with walking sticks, filed into the polling places one by one. One of my close Weyewa friends helped organize this event in his subdistrict, and
Page 24 - the king's court and capital, and at their axis the king himself, form at once an image of divine order and a paradigm for social order

