Shifting Languages
Subtitle: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, No. 19)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521634489
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Sociolinguistics; Sociology; Linguistic change; Indonesia; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Indonesian languages; South East Asia; Linguistics; Anthropology - Cultural; Miscellaneous; Javanese language--Social aspects; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Speech and social status; Anthropology - General; Java; Javanese language; Social aspects
First sentence: In 1995, in the afterglow of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) which it had hosted the previous year, Indonesia celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as a newly visible power on the international scene.