Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Sociopolitics of Linguistic Differentiation among the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia

9974360 Silverstein/ Zimmer本项目支持芝加哥大学一名人类学学生的论文研究，研究印度尼西亚第二大民族西爪哇巽他人的语言差异意识形态。 目前，随着苏哈托总统长期政权的结束，印度尼西亚社会正在经历迅速的变化，世界许多地方共同面临的一个重大问题是少数民族与民族国家的关系。通过对两个实地（一个历史上的贵族高地地区和另一个具有复杂的当代文化影响的地区）的语言互动进行细粒度分析，该项目旨在了解巽他语使用者如何通过绘制内部和外部语言边界来定位自己和他人。这些界限将基于当地的“Sundaneseness”和“Sundaneseness”模式，反对传统的规范性改进和现代的平等主义理想。 这种对语言自我定位的分析将有助于我们了解人们如何认同或反对其他民族，并有助于我们理解当地民族冲突的根源。 此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并增进我们对世界这一重要领域的了解。

9974360Silverstein / Zimmer This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Chicago studying ideologies of language differentiation among the Sundanese people of West Java, the second largest ethnic group in Indonesia. At the present time Indonesian society is undergoing rapid change with the end of the long-standing regime of President Suharto, and one major issue shared with many parts of the world is the relation of ethnic minorities to the national state. Through a fine-grained analysis of linguistic interaction in two fieldsites (a historically aristocratic highland area, and another locale with a complex mixture of contemporary cultural influences) the project aims to understand how Sundanese speakers position themselves and others by drawing internal and external linguistic boundaries. These boundaries will be based on local models of "Sundaneseness" and "Indonesianness" opposing traditional normative refinement with modern egalitarian ideals. This analysis of linguistic self-positioning will shed light on how people identify with or against other ethnic groups, and will help us understand the roots of local ethnic conflicts. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist, and advances our knowledge of this important area of the world.