Author: Wolfowitz, Clare
Title: Language Style and Social Space : Stylistic Choice in Suriname Javanese
Description: Urbana, University of Illinois Press, (1991). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, viii,265 pp, Series: Illinois Studies in Anthropology, No. 18.. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Models: Introduction; The Style System of Suriname Javanese; The Repertoire: Expressive Features of Ordinary Style; Domestic Politeness; Speech Levels in Javanese; Individual Styles of Lexical Politeness; Pronoun Selection & Replacement; Social Space: Domestic Space; Functional Adaptation in Suriname-Javanese Households; Stylization & Social Context.

Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Suriname Javanese, Sociology Languages, Linguistics Sundic, Language Linguistic, Social Status Style, Malayo-Polynesian, Ethnography Speech, Ethnolinguistics