A01=Alessandro Duranti
anthropology
Author_Alessandro Duranti
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ceremonial address
ceremonial speakers
change
discourse
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ethnography
everyday interaction
field linguistics
fono
forms of life
genre distinctions
grammar
grammatical choices
human agency
intertextuality
language
linguistics
moral flow
moral flow hypothesis
morality
native taxonomy
political anthropology
political discourse
political process
politics
power
pragmatic
social identity
social order
space
speech event
time
traditional oratory
transcript
western samoa
western samoan village
Product details
- ISBN 9780520083851
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
