Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, No. 19)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521634482
ISBN 13
9780521634489
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
238
Description
Until recently, Indonesian, the national language of a vast, plural nation state, was spoken by very few of the Javanese who live in south-central Java. But the national language is now being learned, along with a national identity, and is the key vehicle for modernity and progress in these communities. Errington has written a fascinating account of the role of language in radical social transformation. - from Amzon
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