ISBN10: 0195111974, ISBN13: 9780195111972, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of socialstratification, including women's roles in creating hierarchy. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Oxford University Press OUP , pp. 228 . Hardback. Used. Oxford University Press OUP ISBN 0195111974 9780195111972 [US]