Language, Migration, and Identity:

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.

Zane Goebel is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.

Figures	p. vii
Diagrams	p. viii
Maps	p. ix
Tables	p. x
Extracts	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Conventions	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Layout of the book	p. 3
Fieldwork in two wards	p. 7
Long-term Processes of Enregisterment	p. 12
Introduction	p. 12
Interaction, semiotic registers, and enregisterment	p. 13
Enregisterment: From colonial to New Order Indonesia	p. 16
Government policy, regional languages, and schooling	p. 19
Popular television and enregisterment in late New Order Indonesia	p. 22
Ethnicity and Chineseness	p. 34
Conclusions	p. 38
Enregistering Local Practices and Local Spaces	p. 42
Introduction	p. 42
The genesis of local wards	p. 43
Trajectories of socialization in Ward 5	p. 46
Trajectories of socialization in Ward 8	p. 50
Conclusions	p. 55
Linguistic Signs, Alternation, Crossing, and Adequation	p. 58
Introduction	p. 58
Classification of lexical signs	p. 60
Lexical form knowledge and use	p. 67
Learning Javanese	p. 71
Conclusions	p. 75
Women, Narratives, Identity, and Expectations in Ward 8	p. 76
Introduction	p. 76
Narratives and processes of social identification	p. 76
Initial processes of social identification in a female meeting	p. 81
Narratives, collusion, identity and negative affect	p. 88
Publicly co-constructing self, other, and expectations for social conduct	p. 92
Conclusions	p. 105
Learning to Become a Good Ward Member	p. 109
Introduction	p. 109
Enregisterment across speech situations	p. 110
Linguistic sign exchanges, interactional histories and meta-pragmatics	p. 118
Conclusions	p. 124
Emerging Identities in a Monthly Ward 8 Male Meeting	p. 126
Introduction	p. 126
Widely and locally circulating signs of personhood	p. 127
Narratives, medium choice and social identification	p. 129
Patterns of linguistic sign exchange	p. 141
Conclusions	p. 144
Chineseness as Deviance	p. l47
Introduction	p. 147
(Re)establishing finances and social relations	p. 147
Chineseness as deviance	p. 153
Linguistic sign exchanges and interactional histories	p. 161
Conclusions	p. l69
Language Ideologies and Practice in Ward 5	p. 172
Introduction	p. 172
Intra-ethnic talk in a card game	p. 174
Habitual intra-ethnic linguistic sign exchanges and local histories	p. 178
Inter-ethnic talk in a card game	p. 182
Habitual inter-ethnic linguistic sign exchanges and local histories	p. 186
Conclusions	p. 190
Conclusions	p. 191
Introduction	p. 191
A brief recapitulation	p. 192
Approaching migration, migrants and interaction in a transient setting	p. 197
Notes	p. 199
References	p. 202
Index	p. 214
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Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia

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