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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792262203321

Autore

Makihara Miki

Titolo

Consequences of Contact [[electronic resource] ] : Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-029593-7

1-281-16538-7

0-19-972453-9

0-19-804356-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchieffelinBambi B

Disciplina

306.44091823

Soggetti

Languages in contact

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations; 2. Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Postcolonial Solomon Islands; 3. Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse; 4. To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia; 5. Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community; 6. You Can't Talk behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society

7. Found in Translating: Reflexive Language across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea8. Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authenticity in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation; 9. Changing Scholarly Representations of the Tongan Honorific Lexicon; 10. Postscript: Making Contact between Consequences; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Subject Index; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

1. Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations, Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin  2. Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands, Christine Jourdan  3. Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse, Miki Makihara  4. To Tangle or



Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia, Kathleen C. Riley  5. Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community, Rupert Stasch  6. You Can't Talk Behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a