Zane Goebels werk duikt in de complexiteit van de Indonesische taal en taalkunde, met een bijzondere focus op sociolinguïstiek en uitgebreid veldonderzoek in Indonesië. Zijn academische achtergrond biedt een diepgaand inzicht in de nuances van de taal en de culturele context. Met zijn bijdragen beoogt hij de complexiteit van het Indonesisch toegankelijk te maken voor een breder publiek. Zijn publicaties dienen als waardevolle bronnen voor degenen die zich willen verdiepen in de Indonesische taal.
The book delves into the dynamics of language in contact settings, examining how it shapes and reflects identities, social expectations, and relationships. It highlights the intricate ways in which communication influences personal and group identities, offering insights into the social implications of language use in diverse contexts.
Scholars of language ideology have encouraged us to reflect on and explore where social categories come from, how they have been reproduced, and whether and to what extent they are relevant to everyday interactional practices.
In accounts of ethnographic fieldwork and textbooks on ethnography, we often find the notion of rapport used to describe social relationships in the field. Frequently, rapport between researcher and researched is invoked as a prerequisite to be achieved before fieldwork can start, or used as evidence to judge the value and robustness of an ethnography. With few exceptions, and despite regular pleas to do so, ethnographers continue to avoid presenting any discursive evidence of what rapport might look like from an interactional perspective. In a sense, the uncritical acceptance of rapport as a fieldwork goal and measure has helped hide the discursive work that goes on in the field. In turn, this has privileged ideas about identity as portable rather than "portable and emergent", and reports of social life as more important than how such reports emerge. Written for all those who engage or plan to engage in ethnographic fieldwork, this collection examines how social relationships dialogically emerge in fieldwork settings.