Publications

Publication details [#14762]

Keating, Elizabeth. 1997. Honorific possession: Power and language in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Language in Society 26 (2) : 247–268.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

honorific | metaphor | possessive construction | power

Language as a subject

Pohnpei

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This ethnographic study of Pohnpeian possessive constructions indicates how honorific speech reclassifies cultural categories of social power and rank.