Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity: 65 (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series) - Softcover

Errington, J. Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896801209 ISBN 13: 9780896801202

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896801209
• ISBN 13: 9780896801202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210