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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village

By: Duranti, Alessandro

Price: $3.89

Publisher: University of California Press: 1994-08-22

Seller ID: M0520083857Z2

ISBN: 0520083857

Condition: VeryGood

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 analy...
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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village

By: Duranti, Alessandro

Price: $39.99

Publisher: University of California Press: 1994-08-22

Seller ID: M0520082451Z3

ISBN: 0520082451

Condition: Good

Standard-sized. G - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD
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Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian English Dictionary a Complete Grammar

By: Judd, H.

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Hawaiian Service: 1980-06-01

Seller ID: 0930492064-01

ISBN: 0930492064

Condition: Good

some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name
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Treasury of Hawaiian Words in One Hundred and One Categories

By: Kent, Harold Winfield

Price: $7.96

Publisher: Masonic Public Library: 1998-01-01

Seller ID: M0824816048Z3

ISBN: 0824816048

Condition: Good

This Treasury offers a wealth of information for everybody.... It] proves that a surprising number of Hawaiian words from our receding past still help us to express ourselves in the maddening present. --from the Foreword by O. A. Bushnell

Working from faded notes left more than a century ago by Dr. Charles M. Hyde, Harold Winfield Kent researched correct spellings, diacritical marks, definitions, and new words to compile this listing of Hawaiian words according to category and subject.

Readers will discover unanticipated uses as they explore the treasures in this book. Some peo...
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The Polynesian Languages (Languages of Asia and Africa, Volume 4)

By: Krupa, Viktor

Price: $19.62

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1982-01-01

Seller ID: M0710090757Z3

ISBN: 0710090757

Condition: Good

Standard-sized. G - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD
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New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary

By: Samuel H. Elbert,Mary Kawena Pukui

Price: $2.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press: 1991-11-01

Seller ID: M0824813928Z3

ISBN: 0824813928

Condition: Good

Standard-sized. G - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD
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New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary

By: Samuel H. Elbert,Mary Kawena Pukui

Price: $2.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press: 1991-11-01

Seller ID: M0824813928Z2

ISBN: 0824813928

Condition: VeryGood

In a compact and portable format, this dictionary contains more than ten thousand entries, a welcome chapter on grammar explained in non-technical terms, and a pronunciation guide.
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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

By: Senft, Gunter

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996-03-14

Seller ID: 0195092112-02

ISBN: 0195092112

Condition: Good

no dj, some wear, still nice! - may have remainder mark
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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

By: Senft, Gunter

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996-03-14

Seller ID: 0195092112-01

ISBN: 0195092112

Condition: Good

no dj, some wear, still nice! - may have remainder mark
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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

By: Senft, Gunter

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996-03-14

Seller ID: M0195092112Z3

ISBN: 0195092112

Condition: Good

Jumbo-sized. G - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD
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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

By: Senft, Gunter

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996-03-14

Seller ID: M0195092112Z2

ISBN: 0195092112

Condition: VeryGood

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describes and develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his anthropological and linguistic fieldwork in the islands, and emphasizing the use of classifiers in a social context, Senft provides quantitative d...
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Kunjen syntax: A generative view (Australian aboriginal studies)

By: Sommer, B. A

Price: $22.51

Publisher: Australian Institute of Aborigin: 1972-01-01

Seller ID: M0855750227Z2

ISBN: 0855750227

Condition: VeryGood

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