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Power Sharing : Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195354713 0195354710 1280529369 9781280529368 1429404418 9781429404419 |