Semiosis, interaction and ethnicity in urban Java
Goebel, Zane (2009) Semiosis, interaction and ethnicity in urban Java. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 13 (4). pp. 499-523.
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Abstract
This paper teases out the interdiscursive relations between local and perduring signs of personhood and their recontextualization in situated talk. In doing so, I aim to provide further evidence of the utility of incorporating ethnography, linguistic anthropological work on semiotics and work on face-to-face interaction. My empirical focus is on two consecutive men's meetings that occurred in an urban Indonesian milieu. In particular, I draw upon work on semiotic register formation and processes of social identification to flesh out how signs from different temporal-spatial scales figure in the social identification of a non-present neighbor as deviant and Chinese. By taking an interactional view I also attempt to fill a gap in the scholarship on such inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia, which has hitherto primarily been historical in nature.
Item ID: | 11440 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 1467-9841 |
Keywords: | ethnicity; enregisterment; social identification; interaction; Indonesia |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2010 04:43 |
FoR Codes: | 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200202 Asian Cultural Studies @ 50% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) @ 50% |
SEO Codes: | 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture @ 100% |
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