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Title: | Inside(r)-outside(r): Toward a Linguistics and Sociology of Space on Pitcairn Island | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53016 | Open Access Link: | https://journals.kvasirpublishing.com/af/article/view/372 | Abstract: | This article investigates how the explicit and fixed inside–outside (landward-seaward) absolute spatial axis used to describe offshore space linguistically in the Pitcairn Island language, Pitcairn, can be applied metaphorically to a more implicit and flexible social axis of insider–outsider in Pitcairn Island society. An argument merging the role of the researcher-as-outsider interacting with informant-as-insider and real and perceived social threat is advanced. The piece concludes by reasoning that descriptions of grammaticalised space in the Pitcairn language are stricter and less flexible than the potentially more fluid appreciation of the constitution of the island's insider–outsider consensus. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Folklore, v.31, p. 205-216 | Publisher: | Australian Folklore Association, Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 0819-0852 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 451310 Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages 451304 Pacific Peoples cultural history 470411 Sociolinguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 130201 Communication across languages and culture 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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