Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations i

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The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local language varieties. Contact between colonial and post-colonial governments, religious institutions, and indigenous communities has spurred profound social change, irrevocably transforming linguistic ideologies and practices.Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic analyses, this edited volume examines situations of intertwined linguistic and cultural change unfolding in specific Pacific locations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its overarching concern is with the multiple ways that processes of historical change have shaped and been shaped by linguistic ideologies reflexive sensibilities about languages and language useheld by Pacific peoples and other agents of change. The essays demonstrate that language and linguistic practices are linked to changing consciousness of self and community through notions of agency, morality, affect, authority, and authenticity.In times of cultural contact, communities often experience language change at an accelerated rate. This is particularly so in small-scale communities where innovations and continuity routinely depend on the imagination, creativity, and charisma of fewer individuals. The essays in this volume provide evidence of this potential and a record of their voices, as they document new types of local actors, e.g., pastors, Bible translators, teachers, political activists, spirit mediums, and tour guides, some of whom introduce, innovate, legitimate, or resist new ideas and ways to express them through language. Drawing on and transforming metalinguistic concepts, local actors (re)shape language, reproducing and changing the communicative economy. In the process, they cultivate new cultural conceptions of language, for example, as a medium for communicating religious knowledge and political authority, and for constructing social boundaries and transforming relationships of domination.

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The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local language varieties. Contact between colonial and post-colonial governments, religious institutions, and indigenouscommunities has spurred profound social change, irrevocably transforming linguistic ideologies and practices.Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic analyses, this edited volume examinessituations of intertwined linguistic and cultural change unfolding in specific Pacific locations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its overarching concern is with the multiple ways that processes of historical change have shaped and been shaped by linguistic ideologies reflexive sensibilities about languages and language useheld by Pacific peoples and other agents of change. The essays demonstrate that language and linguistic practices are linked to changing consciousnessof self and community through notions of agency, morality, affect, authority, and authenticity.In times of cultural contact, communities often experience language change at anaccelerated rate. This is particularly so in small-scale communities where innovations and continuity routinely depend on the imagination, creativity, and charisma of fewer individuals. The essays in this volume provide evidence of this potential and a record of their voices, as they document new types of local actors, e.g., pastors, Bible translators, teachers, political activists, spirit mediums, and tour guides, some of whom introduce, innovate, legitimate, or resist new ideas and ways toexpress them through language. Drawing on and transforming metalinguistic concepts, local actors (re)shape language, reproducing and changing the communicative economy. In the process, they cultivate newcultural conceptions of language, for example, as a medium for communicating religious knowledge and political authority, and for constructing social boundaries and transforming relationships of domination.

Author Biography

Miki Makihara is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNYBambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Table of Contents

1: Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin: Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations2: Christine Jourdan: Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands3: Miki Makihara: Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse4: Kathleen C. Riley: To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia5: Rupert Stasch: Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community6: Joel Robbins: You Can't Talk Behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society7: Bambi B. Schieffelin: Found in Translating: Reflexive Language Across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea8: Courtney Handman: Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authority in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation9: Susan U. Phillips: Changing Scholarly Representations of Tongan Honorific Lexicon10: J. Joseph Errington: Postscript: Making Contact Between Consequences

Review

"Consequences of Contact contains great insight, and the depth of detail it is able to achieve by focusing exclusively on Pacific Societies makes it an important collection. Makihara and Schieffelin have compiled a volume indispensable for anyone seeking a deep and comprehensive understanding of modern Pacific language change." --Linguist List"Consequences of Contact contains great insight, and the depth of detail it is able to achieve by focusing exclusively on Pacific Societies makes it an important collection. Makihara and Schieffelin have compiled a volume indispensable for anyone seeking a deep and comprehensive understanding of modern Pacific language change." --Linguist List

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A critical examination of the consequences of contact between colonial and missionary projects and indigenous communities in contemporary Pacific societies.

Long Description

The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local language varieties. Contact between colonial and post-colonial governments, religious institutions, and indigenouscommunities has spurred profound social change, irrevocably transforming linguistic ideologies and practices.Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic analyses, this edited volume examines situations of intertwined linguistic and cultural change unfolding in specific Pacific locations in thelate twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its overarching concern is with the multiple ways that processes of historical change have shaped and been shaped by linguistic ideologies reflexive sensibilities about languages and language useheld by Pacific peoples and other agents of change. The essays demonstrate that language and linguistic practices are linked to changing consciousness of self and community through notions of agency, morality, affect, authority, andauthenticity.In times of cultural contact, communities often experience language change at an accelerated rate. This is particularly so in small-scale communities where innovations and continuity routinely depend on the imagination, creativity, and charisma of fewer individuals. The essays in thisvolume provide evidence of this potential and a record of their voices, as they document new types of local actors, e.g., pastors, Bible translators, teachers, political activists, spirit mediums, and tour guides, some of whom introduce, innovate, legitimate, or resist new ideas and ways to express them through language. Drawing on and transforming metalinguistic concepts, local actors (re)shape language, reproducing and changing the communicative economy. In the process, they cultivate newcultural conceptions of language, for example, as a medium for communicating religious knowledge and political authority, and for constructing social boundaries and transforming relationships of domination.

Review Text

"Consequences of Contact contains great insight, and the depth of detail it is able to achieve by focusing exclusively on Pacific Societies makes it an important collection. Makihara and Schieffelin have compiled a volume indispensable for anyone seeking a deep and comprehensive understanding of modern Pacific language change." --Linguist List"Consequences of Contact contains great insight, and the depth of detail it is able to achieve by focusing exclusively on Pacific Societies makes it an important collection. Makihara and Schieffelin have compiled a volume indispensable for anyone seeking a deep and comprehensive understanding of modern Pacific language change." --Linguist List

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"The idea of language ideology has matured to the point where it can be used to frame research agendas well beyond that of defining and defending the concept itself. Consequences of Contact does a splendid job of demonstrating the promise of this approach, offering insights into social and cultural transformation where multiple languages and language ideologies are in play." -- Language in Society

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Studies the growing and vibrant topic of language use in Pacific societies Top quality contributors

Details ISBN0195324978 Year 2007 ISBN-10 0195324978 ISBN-13 9780195324976 Format Hardcover Subtitle Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies DEWEY 306.44091823 Illustrations maps Short Title CONSEQUENCES OF CONTACT Language English Media Book Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin Pages 248 Position Professor of Anthropology Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Professor of Anthropology, New York University DOI 10.1604/9780195324976 Author Bambi B. Schieffelin UK Release Date 2007-10-11 Publication Date 2007-10-11 AU Release Date 2007-10-11 NZ Release Date 2007-10-11 US Release Date 2007-10-11 Alternative 9780195324983 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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