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|Description of information="As the painting of a village shadow play that is reproduced on the dust jacket of this handsome book vividly illustrates, everything in Bali tends toward luxuriant complexity. Language is no exception: Balinese have long been inclined to take on other people’s languages and maintain them as distinct codes, available for use in specific contexts but never completely melded into a single entity one could call “Balinese.” So in the communicative thickets one finds: in everyday speech, an intricate system of speech registers indicating degrees of status and intimacy; in religious ritual, Sanskrit; in ritual and performances, Old Javanese; and increasingly, in official settings, the national language of Indonesian...." | |Description of information="As the painting of a village shadow play that is reproduced on the dust jacket of this handsome book vividly illustrates, everything in Bali tends toward luxuriant complexity. Language is no exception: Balinese have long been inclined to take on other people’s languages and maintain them as distinct codes, available for use in specific contexts but never completely melded into a single entity one could call “Balinese.” So in the communicative thickets one finds: in everyday speech, an intricate system of speech registers indicating degrees of status and intimacy; in religious ritual, Sanskrit; in ritual and performances, Old Javanese; and increasingly, in official settings, the national language of Indonesian...." | ||
| + | |Description of information ban=Asapunapi sekadi gegambaran balih-balihan wayang ring desa kawentenan takep bukune puniki sayuwakti nyinahang sakanacan parindikan ring Bali setata sukil lan ngulangunin. Basa taler nenten luput saking kahanane punika: parajanane ring Bali saking nguni sampun sendeh nganggen basa siosan tur miara basane punika satmaka pralambang mapasahan, samaliha setata prasida kaangen ring kahanan-kahanan mabuat nanging nenten setata prasida katunggilang ring sane tunggal mangda prasida kasengguh “Bali”. nika makawinan ring kasukilan mabaosan sida kapanggih: ring basa serahina, wenten sor-singgih basa kaanggen mabebaosan kanten sukil sane kaangen nyihnayang soroh lan pasawitran; ring widang agama, sansekerta: ring widang upacara lan sasolahan, Kawi; nyansan nincap kaangen rikala parikrama sekaa, basa nasional Indonesia. | ||
|Description of information id=“Sebagaimana ilustrasi pertunjukan wayang di desa pada sampul buku ini dengan gamblang gambarkan, segala sesuatu di Bali cenderung mengarah pada kerumitan nan molek. Bahasa juga tak luput dari kecenderungan tersebut: masyarakat Bali sejak lama condong untuk mempergunakan bahasa orang lain dan memeliharanya sebagai kode-kode yang terpisah, senantiasa dapat digunakan pada konteks-konteks tertentu namun tak pernah sepenuhnya dileburkan ke dalam suatu entitas tunggal yang dapat disebut sebagai “Bali”. Sehingga dalam belukar komunikasi kita akan menemukan: dalam bahasa sehari-hari, sebuah sistem penjenjangan cara berucap yang rumit yang menyatakan tingkat status dan keakraban; dalam ritual keagamaan, Sanskerta; dalam ritual dan pertunjukan, Kawi; dan yang semakin meningkat penggunaannya dalam situasi resmi kelembagaan, bahasa nasional Indonesia...” | |Description of information id=“Sebagaimana ilustrasi pertunjukan wayang di desa pada sampul buku ini dengan gamblang gambarkan, segala sesuatu di Bali cenderung mengarah pada kerumitan nan molek. Bahasa juga tak luput dari kecenderungan tersebut: masyarakat Bali sejak lama condong untuk mempergunakan bahasa orang lain dan memeliharanya sebagai kode-kode yang terpisah, senantiasa dapat digunakan pada konteks-konteks tertentu namun tak pernah sepenuhnya dileburkan ke dalam suatu entitas tunggal yang dapat disebut sebagai “Bali”. Sehingga dalam belukar komunikasi kita akan menemukan: dalam bahasa sehari-hari, sebuah sistem penjenjangan cara berucap yang rumit yang menyatakan tingkat status dan keakraban; dalam ritual keagamaan, Sanskerta; dalam ritual dan pertunjukan, Kawi; dan yang semakin meningkat penggunaannya dalam situasi resmi kelembagaan, bahasa nasional Indonesia...” | ||
|Link=Keeler, Ward. American Anthropologist, New Series, 90, no. 3 (1988): 740-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/678294. | |Link=Keeler, Ward. American Anthropologist, New Series, 90, no. 3 (1988): 740-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/678294. | ||
Revision as of 08:47, 30 July 2018
- Title
- The Language of Balinese Shadow Theater
- Original language
- Author(s)
- Illustrator(s)
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- —
- Publication date
- July 14, 2014, originally published in 1987.
- Subjects
- Wayang
- Language
- Shadow
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Description(s)
"As the painting of a village shadow play that is reproduced on the dust jacket of this handsome book vividly illustrates, everything in Bali tends toward luxuriant complexity. Language is no exception: Balinese have long been inclined to take on other people’s languages and maintain them as distinct codes, available for use in specific contexts but never completely melded into a single entity one could call “Balinese.” So in the communicative thickets one finds: in everyday speech, an intricate system of speech registers indicating degrees of status and intimacy; in religious ritual, Sanskrit; in ritual and performances, Old Javanese; and increasingly, in official settings, the national language of Indonesian...."
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