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  2. Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali

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    Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali is a 1980 book written by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. [1] Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a "hydraulic bureaucracy" nor an oriental despotism, but rather, an organized spectacle. The noble rulers of the island were less interested in administering the lives of ...

  3. Agency for Language Development and Cultivation - Wikipedia

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    The Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Indonesian: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa), formerly the Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan) and the Language Centre (Pusat Bahasa), is the institution responsible for standardising and regulating the Indonesian language as well as maintaining the indigenous languages of Indonesia.

  4. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing.

  5. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. Each corresponds to a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1]Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2]

  6. Theatre state - Wikipedia

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    The term, coined by Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) in 1980 in reference to political practice in the nineteenth-century Balinese Negara, [1] has since expanded in usage. Hunik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung, for example, regard contemporary North Korea as a theatre state. [ 2 ]

  7. Metalinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Metalinguistics is the branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to other cultural behaviors.It is the study of how different parts of speech and communication interact with each other and reflect the way people live and communicate together.

  8. Bhāṣā - Wikipedia

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    The word Bahasa in English is sometimes used to refer specifically to the Indonesian and Malay, this standalone usage however is considered incorrect within the language: [1] when referring to other languages, a non-capitalized bahasa ("language") is used preceding a toponym or ethnonym (e.g. bahasa Ingg[e]ris "English", bahasa Italia "Italian ...

  9. Van Ophuijsen Spelling System - Wikipedia

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    Prof. Charles Adriaan van Ophuijsen [nl; id], who devised the orthography, was a Dutch linguist.He was a former inspector in a school at Bukittinggi, West Sumatra in the 1890s, before he became a professor of the Malay language at Leiden University in the Netherlands.