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- Title
"Staged" Rituals and "Veiled" Spells: Multiple Language Ideologies and Transformations in Petalangan Verbal Magic.
- Authors
Yoonhee Kang
- Abstract
This article analyzes shifting forms and meanings of two Petalangan traditional genres of verbal magic, a public healing ritual and a genre of personal magical spells, in the context of the Petalangan social marginalization. To explain why and how these two genres have changed differently, this article focuses on the roles of two different language ideologies, the referentialist and performativist views of language, in the mediation between the linguistic and social changes in Petalangan society. Against the prevailing assumption of a linear transition of language ideologies from the performativist to the referentialist view of language in accordance with social modernization, the transformations in the Petalangan magical genres reveal a multifaceted process of change in which multiple language ideologies have worked differently across the genres and contexts.
- Subjects
MAGIC; RITUAL; LANGUAGE &; languages; SOCIAL stratification; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; PETALANGAN (Indonesian people)
- Publication
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1055-1360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/jlin.2006.16.1.001