Keating Elizabeth. Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender, and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia

Oxford University Press, 1998. — xi, 214 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-511197-4.This study combines ethnography with a number of other methods, including linguistic analysis at the phrase and morpheme level, the analysis of naturally occurring talk developed by conversation analysts and discourse analysts, ethnographies of speaking, and work by linguists on cognition and metaphor. S tudying language as social action and examining specific utterances in specific ethnographic contexts reveal how stratification is organized through language in interaction and how linguistic forms contribute to the naturalization of hierarchical relationships and the collaborative construction of meaning.The Ethnographic Setting
What Are Honorifics?
Paths and Regions in Honorific Speech: Hierarchy of Place and Access to Status
Honorific Possession: Grammatical Relations of Control and Permanence
Women’s Power Etiquette: Relationships between Gender and Honorifics
Positioned Knowledge: Constructing Asymmetrical Epistemologies
Valuing Stratification: Honor in Oratory and Feasting Practices