Contents; Introduction; 1. The Ethnographic Setting; 2. What Are Honorifics?; 3. Paths and Regions in Honorific Speech: Hierarchy of Place and Access to Status; 4. Honorific Possession: Grammatical Relations of Control and Permanence; 5. Women's Power Etiquette: Relationships between Gender and Honorifics; 6. Positioned Knowledge: Constructing Asymmetrical Epistemologies; 7. Valuing Stratification: Honor in Oratory and Feasting Practices; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index