Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ278120
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Mar
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Samoan Speechmaking across Social Events: One Genre in and out of a "Fono."
Duranti, Alessandro
Language in Society, v12 n1 p1-22 Mar 1983
Addresses the relevance of a functional approach to the study of speech genres. Discusses the variation factors that can explain and partly predict spontaneous performances of a traditional genre of Samoan speechmaking. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnography, Language Styles, Performance, Rhetoric, Samoan, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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