Publications

Publication details [#39052]

Duranti, Alessandro. 1988. Intentions, language, and social action in a Samoan context. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (1) : 13–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | juridical language | political language | speaker meaning | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

Samoan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper questions the universal validity of the personalist view of speaker meaning and intention on the basis of a study of spontaneous politico-judiciary verbal interaction in a traditional Western Samoan village.