J. Joseph Errington


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Language and Social Change in Java

Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity

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.…

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