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Identity and social conduct in a transient multilingual setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2010

Zane Goebel
Zane Goebel
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Asian Studies, School of Social Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe UniversityMelbourne, VIC 3086, [email protected]
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Abstract

This article focuses on the question of how systems of expectations for social conduct develop in a context characterized by diversity and transience. The empirical focus is a series of women's neighborhood meetings in a transient urban milieu in Indonesia. Drawing on work on semiotic register formation, I argue that expectations for social conduct within this neighborhood are constructed through the positioning of self and others in talk across speech situations. In doing so, I explore interdiscursive relationships between this conversational activity and more perduring signs of personhood and social relations. (Enregisterment, identity, Indonesia, migration, trust)*

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Language in Society , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 203 - 240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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