1.Introduction: Sociolinguistic background <br /> 2. Structural properties of Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese <br /> 3. Showing respect in Javanese <br /> 4. The lexical representation of women and men in Indonesian <br /> 4.1 Generic nouns and the exclusion of women <br /> 4.2 Terms of address, reference to self others <br /> 4.2.1 Pronominal forms <br /> 4.2.2 Kinship terms <br /> 4.3 The communiaction of respect in Indonesian <br /> 4.4 Addressing women and men <br /> 4.5 Terms of endearment <br /> 5. Code-switching: The use of Javanese in Indonesian female/male discourse <br /> 6. Conclusion <br /> <i>Notes <br />References</i>