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I am a linguistic anthropologist with a long-term interest in Indonesia. As a branch of the broad field often referred to as "Sociolinguistics", Linguistic Anthropology seeks to understand the role of language in social life, or put another way it seeks to answer anthropological questions using linguistic methodologies. As a multidisciplinary endeavour, linguistic anthropology and its close cousin linguistic ethnography link semiotics, social theory, ethnography, politics, history, and media and cultural studies to the the close analysis of language in any setting where language is used. Its methods include long term participant-observation, interviewing, close analysis of recordings of face-to-face conversation, and the analysis of the mass media (television, radio) and social media (twitter, facebook, etc).