Power Sharing - Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia

Zusatztext Thus this innovative consideration of how language is a tool for power-sharing! not dominance! in Pohnpeian society is a welcome clarification of consideration of rank and social stratification ... very readable Klappentext What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei! in Micronesia! and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of social stratification! including women's roles in creating hierarchy. Zusammenfassung This text challenges theories on the nature of social stratification. The author went to Pohnpei and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this view of how language works to create power and social inequality.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Keating, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Anthrop Keating, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Anthropology Keating, Keating Elizabeth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780195111972
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511197-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociolinguistics, Gender studies, gender groups, Micronesia