Title Speaking through the silence : narratives, social conventions, and power in Java / Laine Berman.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 18
	Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 18.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index.
Contents	A Note on Transcription Conventions and Translations; Glossary; PART I: SETTING THE SCENE; PART II: DEFINING NARRATIVES; PART III: PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS; Eight: Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, the author shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the constraints of a hierarchical social order through silences, or the "unsaid."
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Subject	Javanese language -- Usage.
	Javanese language -- Usage.
	Javanese language.
	Javanese language -- Address, Forms of.
	Javanese language -- Address, Forms of.
	Javanese language -- Social aspects.
	Javanese language -- Social aspects.
	Speech and social status -- Indonesia -- Java.
	Speech and social status.
	Indonesia -- Java.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Berman, Laine. Speaking through the silence. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97029990
ISBN	1423759397 (electronic book)
	9781423759393 (electronic book)
	160256146X
	9781602561465
	0195108884 (Cloth)
	9780195108880