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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 Introduction The Place of Grammar The Political and Moral Dimensions of Grammatical Choices Getting to the Facts Intertextuality and Heteroglossia Representations of the Social Order Change Talk and Conflict: The Relevance of Genre Distinctions What Kind of Pragmatics Is This? A Speech Event Approach 2 Methods as Forms of Life Field Linguistics Ethnographic Linguistics In Search of a Method The NSF Project Research Agendas and Acquired Social Identities Interviews, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Native Taxonomies Discovering the Fono Interpreting the Texts The Fa)alupega or Ceremonial Address of Falefa What's in a Transcript? Writing Interaction 3 Hierarchies in the Making: Space, Time, and Speaking in a Fono A Love for Order and Its Permutations Space Temporal Boundaries Speaking Conclusions 4 Politics and Verbal Art: Heteroglossia in the Fono Variations across Contexts The Lauga Plan The Lauga as an Epic Genre Formalized Language and Power Variations within the Fono Conclusions 5 The Grammar of Agency in Political Discourse The Content of Political Speechmaking Grammatical Structures as Framing Devices The Expression of Agency in Samoan Grammar Ergative Agents in Fono Discourse: Claims of Accountability Human Agents in the Fono Discussion Mitigated Agency Agency and Power Conclusions 6 From Political Arenas to Everyday Settings: The Grammar of Agency across Contexts The Expression of Agency across Social Situations In Search of Fully Expressed Agents The Politics of Everyday Interaction I: Blaming The Politics of Everyday Interaction II: Giving Credit Illocutionary Force of Transitive Clauses with Agents Conclusions 7 Conclusions Ethnographic Linguistics Conflict and Grammar The Grammar of Human Agency: From Information Flow to Moral Flow Narrative Accounts Samoan Politics APPENDIX: ABBREVIATIONS IN INTERLINEAR GLOSSES NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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