LINGUIST List 21.5105 Thu Dec 16 2010 Books: Anthropological Ling/Socioling/Lang Documentation: Völkel Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: Völkel Message 1: Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: Völkel Date: 11-Dec-2010 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: Völkel E-mail this message to a friend Title: Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language Subtitle: An ethnolinguistic study Series Title: Culture and Language Use 2 Publication Year: 2010 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLU%202 Author: Svenja Völkel Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287724 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287724 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202833 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 95.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202833 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202833 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70 Abstract: 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 express the system of social status inequalities among relatives. These examples impressively show that language is deeply anchored in its cultural context. Moreover, the linguistic structures reflect the underlying cognitive frame of its speakers. Just as several cultural practices (sitting order, access to land and gift exchange processes) the linguistic means are not only expressions of stratified social networks but also tools to maintain or negotiate the underlying socio-cultural system. Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Language Documentation Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Tonga (tnz) Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52115 New! 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