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 | FROM GRAMMAR TO POLITICS. Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. (1st Edition) by Alessandro Duranti Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-520-08385-7 / 0520083857 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08385-1 / 9780520083851 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 d | |