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From Grammar to Politics - Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R966
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From Grammar to Politics - Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (Paperback, New): Alessandro Duranti

From Grammar to Politics - Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (Paperback, New)

Alessandro Duranti

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Alessandro Duranti explores the way traditional oratory in a Samoan village is shaped by the needs of the political process and shows how language insulates ceremonial speakers from the perils of everyday confrontation. He proposes a "moral flow hypothesis" in discourse, to describe a grammar that distributes praise and blame and in that way defines the standing of individuals in the community. This ethnographic journey from linguistic to political anthropology demonstrates that the analysis of grammar in context needs ethnography just as much as the conduct of politics needs grammatical analysis.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1994
First published: August 1994
Authors: Alessandro Duranti
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 232
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08385-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN: 0-520-08385-7
Barcode: 9780520083851

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