Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53016
Title: Inside(r)-outside(r): Toward a Linguistics and Sociology of Space on Pitcairn Island
Contributor(s): Nash, Joshua  (author)orcid 
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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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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