This book is a tour de force. Zane Goebel provides a synthesis of two decades of work in and on Indonesia, and does so in a way that takes linguistic ethnography to the next level. This is contemporary scholarship on language and society at its very best.
Zane Goebel is Associate Professor of Indonesian and Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He works on language and social relations in Indonesia and has published two monographs: Language, Migration and Identity (2010) and Language and Superdiversity (OUP 2015). His work in Indonesia has also lead to international collaborations culminating in three edited volumes: Reimagining Rapport
(forthcoming from OUP), Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters (2019), and Contact Talk (2019).