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Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba: 18 (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 18) - Softcover
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A study of the effects of the spread of Indonesian on local ritual speech on Sumba island.
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'Neatly orchestrating his analysis with admirable concision and lucidity, Kuipers has composed an insightful study that is thoroughly accessible to any reader interested in the shifting nexus between language and power.' Benjamin G. Zimmer, The Times Literary Supplement
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The spread of the national language in Indonesia has threatened local languages. On Sumba a tradition of ritual poetic speech has waned, although new hybrid forms of poetic expression are emerging. Political coercion is a partial explanation, but so is the role of linguistic ideologies.
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