From Grammar to Politics(English, Paperback, Duranti Alessandro)

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From Grammar to Politics(English, Paperback, Duranti Alessandro) is written by Duranti Alessandro and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520083857 (ISBN 10) and 9780520083851 (ISBN 13).

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.