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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in Westernsamoa Village
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 ...more
Paperback, 232 pages
Published
August 22nd 1994
by University of California Press
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