Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on, or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK. The series welcomes ethnographically oriented work in which contexts of communication are investigated rather than assumed, as well as research that shows a clear commitment to close analysis of local meaning-making processes and the semiotic organization of texts. Another high-priority area of study is the investigation of processes through which linguistic resources are negotiated, appropriated and controlled, and the mechanisms leading to the creation and maintenance of sociocultural differences. The series welcomes work dealing with such topics as heterogeneity, mixing, creolization, bricolage, cross-over phenomena, and polylingual and polycultural practices. So the focus is both on the linguistic encounters, inequalities and struggles that characterize postmodern societies and on the development, within sociocultural linguistics, of theoretical instruments to explain them.
4 Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our BordersĪppendix: KBI Statements Situated within the History of Indonesian NationalizationĮNCOUNTERS Series Editors: Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Ben Rampton, Kings College London, UK, Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA, Sirpa Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and James Collins, University at Albany/SUNY, USA The Encounters series sets out to explore diversity in language from a theoretical and an applied perspective.