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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village
From Grammar to Politics Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village
Author: Alessandro Duranti
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520083851
ISBN-10: 0520083857
Publication Date: 8/22/1994
Pages: 208
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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