Goebel Zane. Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia

Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xviii, 221 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-51991-5.While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm and where distinctions between newcomers and old timers changes regularly. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation? Starting from a view of language-society dynamics as enregisterment, Zane Goebel uses interactional sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication to explore how language is used in this contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations. It will be welcomed by researchers and students working in the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the anthropology of migration and Asian studies.Layout of the book
Fieldwork in two wards
Long-term Processes of EnregistermentInteraction, semiotic registers, and enregisterment
Enregisterment: From colonial to New Order Indonesia
Government policy, regional languages, and schooling
Popular television and enregisterment in late New Order Indonesia
Ethnicity and ChinesenessEnregistering Local Practices and Local SpacesThe genesis of local wards
Trajectories of socialization in Ward 5
Trajectories of socialization in Ward 8Linguistic Signs, Alternation, Crossing, and AdequationClassification of lexical signs
Lexical form knowledge and use
Learning JavaneseWomen, Narratives, Identity, and Expectations in Ward 8Narratives and processes of social identification
Initial processes of social identification in a female meeting
Narratives, collusion, identity and negative affect
Publicly co-constructing self, other, and expectations for social conductLearning to Become a Good Ward MemberEnregisterment across speech situations
Linguistic sign exchanges, interactional histories and meta-pragmaticsEmerging Identities in a Monthly Ward 8 Male MeetingWidely and locally circulating signs of personhood
Narratives, medium choice and social identification
Patterns of linguistic sign exchangeChineseness as Deviance(Re)establishing finances and social relations
Chineseness as deviance
Linguistic sign exchanges and interactional historiesLanguage Ideologies and Practice in Ward 5Intra-ethnic talk in a card game
Habitual intra-ethnic linguistic sign exchanges and local histories
Inter-ethnic talk in a card game
Habitual inter-ethnic linguistic sign exchanges and local historiesA brief recapitulation
Approaching migration, migrants and interaction in a transient setting