Il prof. Martin Harper presenterà il suo libro One Nation, One People, One Language. The Story of Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia edito dalle eum - edizioni università di macerata nell'Aula Leibnitz di Palazzo Ciccolini (via XX settembre 5, Macerata), lunedì 16 dicembre alle ore 16.00. 

Seguirà il dibattito "È possibile pianificare una lingua nazionale?" sulla fattibilità da parte di uno stato di gestire lo sviluppo di una lingua nazionale al giorno d'oggi. Interverranno la prof.ssa Elena di Giovanni e il prof. Federico Gaspari.

This book explains how history has moulded Bahasa Indonesia (the Indonesian language), how Bahasa Indonesia shaped history, and the extent to which the ideal of "One Nation, One People, One Language" has been realized.

The Republic of Indonesia is a chain of islands between Asia and Australia comprising Java, Bali, Sumatra, Sulawesi, three-quarters of Borneo and half of New Guinea. Until the 20th century, the archipelago was more like a continent than a country, home to hundreds of ethnic groups with neither a common racial identity, a common culture nor a common tongue to unite them. In this divided state, its inhabitants succumbed to a succession of foreign powers, from the Portuguese and the Spanish to the Dutch, the British and the Japanese. This book tells the story of how a particular dialect of Malay was adopted as the nationalist movement’s language of unity and the role it played in facilitating a struggle for self-determination which, by 1950, had culminated in full independence. It explains how history has moulded Bahasa Indonesia (the Indonesian language), how Bahasa Indonesia shaped history, and the extent to which the ideal of "One Nation, One People, One Language", espoused at the Indonesian Youth Congress of 1928, has been realized.