From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village
ISBN-13:
9780520083851
ISBN-10:
0520083857
Author:
Alessandro Duranti
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Paperback
230 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9780520083851
ISBN-10:
0520083857
Author:
Alessandro Duranti
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Paperback
230 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (ISBN-13: 9780520083851 and ISBN-10: 0520083857), written by authors
Alessandro Duranti, was published by University of California Press in 1994.
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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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