Language and Superdiversity
Subtitle: Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199795420
Subjects: Indonesian language; Sociolinguistics
Description: 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 these issues, this book focuses on how ethnicity has been semiotically constructed, valued, and reproduced in Indonesia since Dutch colonial times, and how signs or emblems from this construct are used in everyday talk.