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Social Structure Space And Possession In Tongan Culture And Language An Ethnolinguistic Study Svenja Volkel

Name: Social Structure Space And Possession In Tongan Culture And Language An Ethnolinguistic Study Svenja Volkel
SKU: BELL-4715450
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Social Structure Space And Possession In Tongan Culture And Language An Ethnolinguistic Study Svenja Volkel instant download after payment.

Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co

File Extension: PDF

File size: 7.49 MB

Pages: 290

Author: Svenja Völkel

ISBN: 9789027287724, 9027287724

Language: English

Year: 2010

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Social Structure Space And Possession In Tongan Culture And Language An Ethnolinguistic Study Svenja Volkel by Svenja Völkel 9789027287724, 9027287724 instant download after payment.

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.