From grammar to politics : linguistic anthropology in a Western Samoan village /

From grammar to politics : linguistic anthropology in a Western Samoan village /

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Author / Creator:Duranti, Alessandro
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
Description:xiii, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Political anthropology -- Western Samoa -- Falefâ.
Anthropological linguistics -- Western Samoa -- Falefâ.
Samoans -- Western Samoa -- Falefâ -- Politics and government.
Samoans -- Western Samoa -- Falefâ -- Social conditions.
Samoan language -- Grammar.
Samoan language -- Political aspects -- Western Samoa -- Falefa.
Anthropological linguistics.
Political anthropology.
Samoan language -- Grammar.
Samoan language -- Political aspects.
Samoans -- Social conditions.
Samoa -- Falefâ
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1554575
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ISBN:0520082451 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520083857 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xiii, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520082451
0520083857

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