| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture and language use : studies in anthropological linguistics,
1879-5838 ;
v. 2
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Culture and language use ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Anthropological Issues: Social structure; Land and the symbolic meaning of space; Possession and gift exchange; Conclusion: connecting remarks on social structure, space and possession -- Part II. Linguistic Issues: Spatial descriptions; A- and O-possession; The language of respect; Conclusions. |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a linguistic perspective. The book provides new insights into the language of respect, an honorific system which is deeply anchored in the societal hierarchy, spatial descriptions that are determined by socio-cultural and geocentric parameters, kinship terminology and possessive categories that perfectly expre. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Polynesia.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Polynesia. |
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Tongan language -- Social aspects.
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Tongan language. |
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Social aspects. |
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Space and time in language.
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Space and time in language. |
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Cognition and culture -- Polynesia.
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Cognition and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Völkel, Svenja. Social structure, space and possession in Tongan culture and language. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027202833 (DLC) 2010028220 (OCoLC)646630450 |
| ISBN |
9789027287724 (electronic book) |
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9027287724 (electronic book) |
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9789027202833 (hardback) |
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9027202834 (hardback) |
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9789027202826 |
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9027202826 |
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