Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity - Brossura

Errington, J. Joseph

 
9780896801202: Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity

Sinossi

Errington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java. Employing data from texts, interviews, observed speech, and questionnaires, he shows a progressive leveling in the language used to denote traditional status differences, and he demonstrates how perceptions of speech styles reflect etiquette and the views of the users.

Errington suggests that a reciprocal assimilation process changes the way members of Java&;s traditional elite deal with each other in a modern urban milieu. The argument and the material on which it is based will be of interest to historians, linguists, anthropologists and other concerned with social and political change in southeast Asia.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Product Description

Book by Errington Joseph J

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.