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Publication details [#48740]
Djenar, Dwi Noverini. 2008. Which self? Pronominal choice, modernity, and self-categorizations. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2008 (189) : 31–54. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that the recent shift in the choice between aku and saya, two singular first person pronoun forms in Indonesian, can be sufficiently accounted for by addressing these pronouns as linguistic representations of personal and social self-categorizations.