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Publication details [#24811]

Brenneis, Donald Lawrence and Fred R. Myers, eds. 1984. Dangerous words: Language and politics in the Pacific. New York UP. xii + 284 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction | language politics | meaning | political language

Annotation

This volume is divided into three sections. Section I gathers articles under the title: Egalitarian polity: the production of contexts of understanding. Section II deals with autonomy or language, objects and the limits of control. Section III finally comments on speech and the taken-for-granted polity.

Reviewed by

Hymes, Dell H. 1989. Review of D.L.Brenneis, F.R.Myers (eds.) (1984: `Dangerous words: Language and politics in the Pacific').