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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Culture and language use ; volume 13
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Culture and language use ; v. 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Languages of Governance in Conflict; Editorial page; Title page; Lcc data; "Goldilocks Zone"; A note on names and anonymity; Table of contents; Note on linguistic conventions; Preface; Conflict; Presentation of the argument and structure of the book; The case as presented throughout; Historical transformations and theoretical perspectives; Tokelau in the world, Tokelau i te lalolagi; The approach; The subject matter; Acknowledgements; Languages of governance; Tokelau: a political background; Na aho anamua -- the days before; Early contacts; Changes in leadership institutions. |
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The "neo-traditional order", migration and transnational relationsContemporary politics and the emergence of national institutions; The political situation from the 1990s to the present: The relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand; Language games; A semiotic approach to values; Languages of governance in conflict; A conversation with the pastor; Some underlying principles; Gender issues: Pastor and wife as role models; Leadership and forms of sociality*; Forms of sociality; Sides and kin; The brother: Sister relationship; Kinship, principles and practice. |
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The dynamics of kaiga: Connecting (fau) through land, and separating by untying (tatala) landKinds of kin: Different types of power and responsibilities; Generational cohorts and relationships of command and responsibility; Relationships (va), avoidance and shame (ma); Ha (tapu, sacred, forbidden) and va in schoolchildren's conceptions; Sides and the village; Ritual moieties; Making sides, making wholes: Separation and unity; Conflict management; Morality, gender and governance; The case, continued; Transformations in leadership and political institutions: Effects on conflict management. |
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Voluntary service abroad and the women's committee (fatupaepae)Communicative practice and contested values; Communicative practice: Underlying values and basic orientations; Ways of speaking: Expressions of leadership and legitimate authority; The Tokelauan language situation and intertextuality; The Tokelauan language; Use of ergative construction (written report, formal); Use of absolutive construction (written report, formal); Linguistic skill and exchange of semiotic resources; Intertextuality; Information flow, media and scale; Intertext one; A news report -- and its reception. |
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Intertext twoTraces of a missing concept, alofa; Intertext three; Learning the principle of "sides" on Facebook; Intertext four; On the relationship between people of the land and visitors from overseas; Disentangling concepts; Spatial orientations and temporality; Temporal regimes and the Tokelau life world; Exploring semantic field s-comparing concepts; The semantic fields of "growth" and "tupu"; Traces of polynesian ontology; "Tupu" in contemporary social context; Growth and translated/transposed concepts; The semantic fields of "transparency" and "social visibility." |
| Summary |
Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It combines a social anthropological approach to postcolonial studies in which local and trans-national communicative practices related to governance and conflict management are analysed as different language games. The book offers an experience-near approach to local modes of conflict management and pa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language and languages -- Political aspects.
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Language and languages -- Political aspects. |
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Languages in contact -- Tokelau.
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Languages in contact. |
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Tokelau. |
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Tokelauans -- Politics and government.
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Tokelauans. |
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Politics and government. |
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Social interaction -- Tokelau.
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Social interaction. |
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Tokelau -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hoëm, Ingjerd. Languages of governance in conflict. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027202963 (DLC) 2014044582 |
| ISBN |
9789027268921 (pdf) |
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9027268924 (pdf) |
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9789027202963 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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