Javanese: A Cultural Approach Volume 69 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780896801219)

Foreign language lessons often provide translations into a foreign language of phrases students would normally use in their native language and cultural setting. Particularly when studying a non-Western language, such direct translation is very misleading. Students must instead learn the conventions that guide human interactions, so they know both what to say and how to say it.

In this text, therefore, the sociological context of Javanese is explained as thoroughly as Javanese grammar. The book presents Javanese in its full complexity and range in order to illustrate a cultural appoach to a non-Western language; it will therefore be of interest not only to language learners, but to linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and many others.

Author: Ward Keeler
ISBN-10: 0896801217
ISBN-13: 9780896801219
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1984
Pages: 559
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.68w x 1.38d