Speaking through the Silence : Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java.

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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Main Author: Berman, Laine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 18.
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