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ItemRapport to Fit In—Rapport to Stand Out(Oxford, 2021-01-21)
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ItemReiterative construction of narrative: A storytelling device from Javanese conversation(J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2016)Using Ochs & Capp’s (2001) ve dimensions of narrative, I analyse small stories that emerge during informal conversation among Javanese speakers. Of particu- lar interest are the dimensions of Linearity, Tellership and Moral Stance. While many of these narratives are organised in chronological order, nearly half emerge from their conversational context non-chronologically. e primary organising strategy found among the non-chronological narratives is repetition combined with elaboration. I call this pattern of narrative organisation reiterative storytell- ing. While reiterative storytelling may not be unique to Javanese, it is pervasive and particularly characteristic of Javanese interactional style. Reiterative story- telling is shown to support the co-constructed development of both narrative and evaluative detail and thus to provide a way for interlocutors to forefront the social motivations behind particular storytelling events.
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ItemPragmatic uses of demonstratives in Cirebon Javanese conversation(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Atmajaya Catholic University, 2014)This study examines demonstratives in the variety of Javanese spoken in the region of Cirebon, on the north coast of the province of West Java. After introducing the demonstrative paradigms found in Cirebon Javanese, this study analyses their functional distribution in conversational discourse based on the taxonomy of demonstrative functions presented in Diessel (1999). The use of demonstratives with reference to first and second person and the role of demonstratives in conversational interaction is also discussed. Cirebon Javanese has a three-way demonstrative system with a number of variant forms. The medial forms are by far the most frequently occurring demonstratives in the conversational data. The anaphoric function is by far the most common function. The use of demonstratives with personal deictic forms and the importance of demonstratives in managing talk in interaction suggest avenues for further research.
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ItemPolitical acts and language revitalization: community and state in Maluku(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)