Title: From grammar to politics : linguistic anthropology in a Western Samoan village /
Authors: Duranti, Alessandro
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Political anthropology Samoa Falefā.; Anthropological linguistics Samoa Falefā.; Samoans Samoa Falefā Politics and government.; Samoans Samoa Falefā Social conditions.; Samoan language Grammar.; Samoan language Political aspects Samoa Falefā.
Contents: 1. Introduction. The Place of Grammar. The Political and Moral Dimensions of Grammatical Choices. Getting to the "Facts" Intertextuality and Heteroglossia. Representations of the Social Order. Change. Talk and Conflict: The Relevance of Genre Distinctions. What Kind of Pragmatics Is This? A Speech Event Approach -- 2. Methods as Forms of Life. Field Linguistics. Ethnographic Linguistics. In Search of a Method. The NSF Project. Research Agendas and Acquired Social Identities. Interviews, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Native Taxonomies. Discovering the Fono. Interpreting the Texts. The Fa'alupega or Ceremonial Address of Falefa. What's in a Transcript? Writing Interaction -- 3. Hierarchies in the Making: Space, Time, and Speaking in a Fono. A Love for Order and Its Permutations. Space. Temporal Boundaries. Speaking. Conclusions -- 4. Politics and Verbal Art: Heteroglossia in the Fono. Variations across Contexts. The Lauga Plan. The Lauga as an Epic Genre.