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Publication details [#48619]

Mawyer, Alexander. 2008. The oceanic drift in Polynesian linguistics. Language & Communication 28 (4) : 363–385.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | identity negotiation | language differentiation | political system | representational structure

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article explores how the discovery of regional languages and their linguistic differentiation affected the representational construction of French Polynesia, the study of its languages over time, and the islanders' political and social lives.