Associate Professor Zane Goebel
Indonesian Major Convenor
Associate Professor in Indonesian
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 52094
Researcher biography
I'm a linguistic anthropologist who studies how communicative events in Indonesia figure in the building and maintenance of social relationships and common knowledge among Indonesians. During my PhD and post-PhD early years my research often involved long periods of fieldwork in Indonesia. As research funding and sabbatical have become scarce, I have increasingly turned to publically available data, such as Indonesian films, newspapers, social media and so on. I have published extensively on my research, including Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighbourhood Talk in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Language and Superdiversity: Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad (Oxford University Press, 2015), Global Leadership Talk: Constructing Good Governance in Indonesia (Oxford University Press, 2020); Reimagining Rapport (Oxford University Press, 2021); Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork settings (Mouton De Gruyter, 2019); and Contact Talk: The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries (with Deborah Cole and Howard Manns, Routledge, 2020).
Publications
Books
Goebel, Zane (2020). Global leadership talk: constructing good governance in Indonesia. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190845049.001.0001
Goebel, Zane (2015). Language and superdiversity: Indonesians knowledging at home and abroad. Oxford studies in sociolinguistics ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Goebel, Zane (2010). Language, migration and identity: neighborhood talk in Indonesia. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511778247
Book Chapters
Goebel, Zane (2024). Unity, diversity and the market: television representations of multilingual diversity in Jakarta. Multilingualism and pluricentricity: a tale of many cities. (pp. 81-98) edited by John Hajek, Catrin Norrby, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher and Doris Schüpbach. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501511974-004
Goebel, Zane (2021). Coda: Reimagining rapport theoretically, metamethodologically, and methodologically. Reimagining Rapport. (pp. 180-183) edited by Goebel, Zane. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0010
Goebe, Zane (2021). Reimagining rapport. Reimagining rapport. (pp. 1-18) edited by Goebel, Zane. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0001
Goebel, Zane (2021). Alignment and affiliation. The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology. (pp. 1-6) edited by Jamese Stanlaw. New York, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0009
Goebel, Zane (2021). Rapport in the anthropological imagination. Reimagining rapport. (pp. 19-42) edited by Goebel, Zane. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0002
Goebel, Zane (2021). Language change. The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology. (pp. 1-10) edited by James Stanlaw. New York, United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0213
Goebel, Zane (2020). Transnationalism, globalization and superdiversity. The Cambridge handbook of discourse studies. (pp. 377-393) edited by Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108348195.018
Goebel, Zane (2020). Modelling contact talk on television. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 126-139) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-8
Goebel, Zane (2020). Coda. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 195-201) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-12
Goebel, Zane, Cole, Deborah and Manns, Howard (2020). Theorizing the semiotic complexity of contact talk: contact registers and scalar shifters. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 1-28) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-1
Morin, Izak and Goebel, Zane (2020). Revaluing Papuan Malay. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 160-176) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-6
Manns, Howard, Cole, Deborah and Goebel, Zane (2020). Indonesia and Indonesian. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 29-39) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Goebel, Zane (2019). The mass mediation of chronotopic identity in a changing Indonesia. Chronotopic identity work: sociolinguistic analyses of cultural and linguistic phenomena in time and space. (pp. 67-85) edited by Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg. Blue Ridge Summit, PA, United States: Multilingual Matters. doi: 10.21832/9781788926621-006
Goebel, Zane (2019). Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia. Language and culture on the margins: global/local interactions. (pp. 27-52) edited by Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351244350-3
Goebel, Zane (2019). Understanding rapport through scalar reflexivity. Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters. (pp. 53-72) edited by Zane Goebel. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501507830-004
Goebel, Zane (2019). Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork settings. Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters. (pp. 1-16) edited by Zane Goebel. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501507830-001
Goebel, Zane (2018). Language diversity and language change in Indonesia. Routledge handbook of contemporary Indonesia. (pp. 378-389) edited by Robert W. Hefner. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315628837-31
Goebel, Zane (2018). Superdiversity. Handbook of pragmatics. (pp. 221-238) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/hop.21.sup1
Goebel, Zane (2017). From neighborhood talk to talking for the neighborhood. The monologic imagination. (pp. 121-141) edited by Matt Tomlinson and Julian Millie. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190652807.003.0007
Goebel, Zane (2017). Superdiversity from within: the case of ethnicity in Indonesia. Engaging superdiversity: recombining spaces, times and language practices. (pp. 251-276) edited by Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Massimiliano Spotti and Jan Blommaert. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters. doi: 10.21832/9781783096800-013
Goebel, Zane (2011). Enregistering identity in Indonesian television serials. Multimodal studies: Exploring issues and domains. (pp. 95-114) edited by Kay O'Halloran and Bradley A. Smith. New York, New York, United States: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203828847
Goebel, Zane and Black, Paul (2003). Language variation in Indonesia: a learner-centred multimedia exploration of the functions of Indonesian vis-à-vis regional languages. Sang Motivator yang Sejati: Kumpulan Karangan Persembahan untuk Professor Drs. Sudjati. (pp. 212-231) edited by Sudaryono. Semarang, Indonesia: Diponegoro University.
Goebel, Zane (2003). Learning to be polite in face-to-face inter-ethnic interactions in two multilingual communities of urban Semarang. Sang Pambayun, The Steel Magnolia as a Frontierswoman: Kumpulan Karya Ilmiah Para Pakar dalam Seminar Internasional Budaya, Bahasa dan Sastra. (pp. 231-281) edited by Sudaryono. Semarang, Indonesia: Diponegoro University.
Journal Articles
Dewi, Udiana Puspa and Goebel, Zane (2023). Discursive valuing practices at the periphery: Javanese use on Indonesian youth radio in multilingual Solo. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023 (283), 113-137. doi: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0039
Tamtomo, Kristian and Goebel, Zane (2023). Dialogic landscapes: toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 27 (3), 268-289. doi: 10.1111/josl.12604
Goebel, Zane (2020). Semiotic landscapes: scaling Indonesian multilingualism. Jurnal Humaniora, 32 (3), 191-205. doi: 10.22146/jh.57647
Goebel, Zane and Manns, Howie (2020). Chronotopic relations: chronotopes, scale, and scale-making. Language and Communication, 70, 82-93. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.03.002
Goebel, Zane (2019). Contact discourse. Language in Society, 48 (3), 331-351. doi: 10.1017/S0047404519000149
Goebel, Zane, Jukes, Anthony and Morin, Izak (2017). Linguistic enfranchisement. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 173 (2-3), 273-295. doi: 10.1163/22134379-17301006
Goebel, Zane (2017). Imitation, interdiscursive hubs and chronotopic configuration. Language and Communication, 53, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2017.01.003
Goebel, Zane (2017). Infrastructures for ethnicity: understanding the diversification of contemporary Indonesia. Asian Ethnicity, 18 (3), 263-276. doi: 10.1080/14631369.2016.1146985
Goebel, Zane (2016). Represented speech: private lives in public talk. Pragmatics, 26 (1), 51-67. doi: 10.1075/prag.26.1.03goe
Goebel, Zane (2015). Common ground and conviviality: Indonesians doing togetherness in Japan. Multilingual Margins, 2 (1), 46-66. doi: 10.11426/mm.v2i1
Goebel, Zane (2014). Review of: Blommaert, Jan (2013): Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes: chronicles of complexity. Sociolinguistica, 28 (1), 213-215. doi: 10.1515/soci-2014-0016
Goebel, Zane (2014). Doing leadership through signswitching in the Indonesian bureaucracy. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 24 (2), 193-215. doi: 10.1111/jola.12048
Goebel, Zane (2014). Stigmatising others through neighbourhood talk in Indonesia. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-20. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3271
Goebel, Zane (2013). Competence to comprehend and knowledging. Language and Communication, 33 (4), 366-375. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.03.006
Goebel, Zane (2013). Representations of doing 'Unity in diversity' on Indonesian television. RIMA: Review for Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 47 (1), 89-114.
Goebel, Zane (2012). Enregisterment, communities and authenticity: Watching Indonesian teledramas. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 22 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01142.x
Goebel, Zane (2011). Talking about mediated representations: exploring ideologies and meanings. Text and Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, 31 (3), 293-314. doi: 10.1515/text.2011.013
Goebel, Zane (2010). Identity and social conduct in a transient multilingual setting. Language in Society, 39 (2), 203-240. doi: 10.1017/S0047404510000059
Goebel, Zane (2009). Semiosis, interaction and ethnicity in urban Java. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 13 (4), 499-523. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2009.00419.x
Goebel, Zane (2008). Enregistering, authorizing and denaturalizing identity in Indonesia. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (1), 46-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00003.x
Goebel, Zane (2008). Language, class and ethnicity in Indonesia. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 164 (1), 69-101. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003700
Goebel, Zane (2007). Enregisterment and appropriation in Javanese-Indonesian bilingual talk. Language in Society, 36 (4), 511-531. doi: 10.1017/S004740450707042X
Goebel, Zane (2007). Re-imagining communicative competence. HERSETEC: journal of hermeneutic study and education of textual configuration, 1 (1), 161-172.
Goebel, Zane (2006). Review of De Fina, Anna 2003. Identity in narrative: A study of immigrant discourse. Discourse and Society, 17 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1177/095792650601700106
Goebel, Zane (2005). An ethnographic study of code choice in two neighbourhoods of Indonesia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (1), 85-107. doi: 10.1080/07268600500113674
Black, Paul and Goebel, Zane (2004). Multivarietal language teaching. Jimmon Shakai Kagaku Kenkyuu, 44, 93-102.
Black, Paul and Goebel, Zane (2004). Nobody's a native speaker of everything: Teaching dialectical variety and code choice. Kajian Sastra: Jurnal Bidang Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan dan Kebudayaan, 28 (1)
Goebel, Zane (2004). Language, sex, and politeness in inter-ethnic interactions in Semarang. Renai: Jurnal Politik Lokal dan Sosial Humaniora, 4 (2), 64-91.
Black, Paul and Goebel, Zane (2002). Multiliteracies in the teaching of Indonesian. Babel, 37 (1), 22-26.
Goebel, Zane (2002). When do Indonesians speak Indonesian? Some evidence from inter-ethnic and foreigner–Indonesian interactions and its pedagogic implications. Journal of Mutilingual and Multicultural Development, 23 (6), 479-489. doi: 10.1080/01434630208666481
Goebel, Zane (2002). Code choice in interethnic interactions in two urban neighborhoods of Central Java, Indonesia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2002 (158), 69-87. doi: 10.1515/ijsl.2002.052
Conference Papers
Goebel, Zane (2014). Understanding shifting languages on Indonesian television: understanding social value in late capitalism. International seminar on language maintenance and shift IV (LAMAS IV), Semarang, Indonesia, 18-19 November 2014. Semarang: Diponogoro University and Central Java Language Center.
Goebel, Zane (2011). Competence and communities: investigating competence to comprehend using television. 13th annual international conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Osaka, Japan, 25 June 2011. Osaka: Japanese Society for Language Sciences.
Goebel, Zane (2008). Enregisterment, alternation and difference: constructing insiders and outsiders in an Indonesian ward. Identity in Text Interpretation and Everyday Life, Nagoya, Japan, 9-10 February 2008. Nagoya, Japan: Nagoya University.
Research Report
Hudghton, Fiona, Kopp, Heather, Nataprawira, Halim, Pohlman, Annie and Goebel, Zane (2021). The strategic importance of Indonesian literacy to Queensland: reinvigorating Indonesian language learning. Brisbane, Australia: BBBIQ (Balai Bahasa dan Budaya Indonesia, Queensland).
Newspaper Article
Goebel, Zane (2015, 02 27). Indonesia and Australia? You’d better watch your language The Conversation
Working Papers
Goebel, Zane (2019). Self and other reference in mass-mediated models of kinship, friendship, and strangerhood. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 230. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2018). Transnationalism, globalisation, and superdiversity. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 205. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane and Manns, Howard (2018). Chronotopic relations and scalar shifters. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 204. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2015). From frontstage to backstage in interviews. Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies. 122. King's College.
Goebel, Zane (2015). Infrastructures for ethnicity. Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies. 175. King's College.
Goebel, Zane (2015). Establishing believability in interviews. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 140. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2015). Modelling unitary and fragmented language ideologies on Indonesian television. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 135. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2015). From neighbourhood talk to talking for the neighbourhood. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 134. bab, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). The idea of ethnicity in Indonesia. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 71. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). Indonesians doing togetherness in Japan. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 67. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). The intimacy of persecution: gossip, stereotype, and violence. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 79. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). Doing leadership through signswitching in the Indonesian bureaucracy. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 72. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). Represented speech: Private lives in public talk in the Indonesian bureaucracy. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 78. Babylon, Tilburg University.
Goebel, Zane (2013). The construction of semiotically dense stereotypes in Indonesian soaps. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies. 82. Babylon, Tilburg University.