From Grammar to Politics

Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-08-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520083851

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Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Innehållsförteckning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS1IntroductionThe Place of GrammarThe Political and Moral Dimensions of Grammatical ChoicesGetting to the "Facts"Intertextuality and HeteroglossiaRepresentations of the Social Order ChangeTalk and Conflict: The Relevance of Genre DistinctionsWhat Kind of Pragmatics Is This?A Speech Event Approach2Methods as Forms of LifeField LinguisticsEthnographic LinguisticsIn Search of a MethodThe NSF ProjectResearch Agendas and Acquired Social IdentitiesInterviews, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Native TaxonomiesDiscovering the FonoInterpreting the TextsThe Fa)alupega or Ceremonial Address of FalefaWhat's in a Transcript?Writing Interaction3Hierarchies in the Making: Space, Time, and Speaking in a FonoA Love for Order and Its PermutationsSpaceTemporal BoundariesSpeakingConclusions4Politics and Verbal Art: Heteroglossia in the FonoVariations across ContextsThe Lauga PlanThe Lauga as an Epic GenreFormalized Language and PowerVariations within the FonoConclusions5The Grammar of Agency in Political DiscourseThe Content of Political SpeechmakingGrammatical Structures as Framing DevicesThe Expression of Agency in Samoan GrammarErgative Agents in Fono Discourse: Claims of AccountabilityHuman Agents in the Fono DiscussionMitigated AgencyAgency and PowerConclusions6From Political Arenas to Everyday Settings: The Grammar of Agency across ContextsThe Expression of Agency across Social SituationsIn Search of Fully Expressed AgentsThe Politics of Everyday Interaction I: BlamingThe Politics of Everyday Interaction II: Giving CreditIllocutionary Force of Transitive Clauses with AgentsConclusions7ConclusionsEthnographic LinguisticsConflict and GrammarThe Grammar of Human Agency: From Information Flow to Moral FlowNarrative AccountsSamoan PoliticsAPPENDIX: ABBREVIATIONS IN INTERLINEAR GLOSSESNOTESREFERENCESINDEX