Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour : Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations Across Southeast Asian Speech Communities / edited by Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Djenar, Dwi Noverini, 1961- editor.

Sidnell, Jack, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forms of address--Social aspects.

Forms of address.

Interpersonal relations--Southeast Asia.

Interpersonal relations.

Sociolinguistics--Southeast Asia.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A study of interlocutor reference that significantly deepens our understanding of the ways in which self-other relations are linguistically mediated in social interaction, based on the analysis of Southeast Asian languages.

Contents:

Interlocutor Reference in Southeast Asian Speech Communities: Sociolinguistic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics

Part 1: Systems, Asymmetries in the System of Person Reference in Kri, a Language of Upland LaosSpeaking of People in South-Central Java

Part 2: Practices, Vocatives in Javanese ConversationNew Patterns, New Practices: Exploring the Use of English Pronouns I and you in Asymmetrical Relations in Kuala Lumpur (KL) Malay Talk

Part 3: Intimacies, "Respect those above, yield to those below": Civility and social hierarchy in Vietnamese interlocutor reference, "Friends who don't throw each other away": Friendship, pronouns, and relations on the edge in Luang Prabang, Laos, Interlocutor reference and deferential relations in Indonesian broadcast talk

Part 4: Theories, Interlocutor reference and the complexity of East and Southeast Asian honorific registers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789813251984

9813251980

OCLC:

1371484506