Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on orthography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality
- 3 Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba
- 4 Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness
- 5 Ideologies of personal naming and language shift
- 6 From miracles to classrooms: changing forms of erasure in the learning of ritual speech
- 7 Conclusions
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE
Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on orthography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality
- 3 Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba
- 4 Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness
- 5 Ideologies of personal naming and language shift
- 6 From miracles to classrooms: changing forms of erasure in the learning of ritual speech
- 7 Conclusions
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE
Summary
Ritual-speech survey of twelve-year-olds students 1979–1994
The multiple-choice tests were administered in classrooms in Kalimbundaramane to sixty-three sixth graders (twelve-year-olds) in 1980 and seventy-one in 1994. Although the number of students who claimed to be “Christian” in 1994 was much higher, non-Christians did not do significantly better on the tests; nor did the religion of their parents affect the score. Boys did somewhat better than girls.
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- Language, Identity, and Marginality in IndonesiaThe Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba, pp. 162 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998