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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Place of Grammar | |
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| The Political and Moral Dimensions of Grammatical Choices | |
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| Getting to the "Facts" | |
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| Intertextuality and Heteroglossia | |
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| Representations of the Social Order | |
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| Change | |
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| Talk and Conflict: The Relevance of Genre Distinctions | |
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| What Kind of Pragmatics Is This? | |
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| A Speech Event Approach | |
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| Methods as Forms of Life | |
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| Field Linguistics | |
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| Ethnographic Linguistics | |
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| In Search of a Method | |
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| The NSF Project | |
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| Research Agendas and Acquired Social Identities | |
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| Interviews, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Native Taxonomies | |
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| Discovering the Fono | |
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| Interpreting the Texts | |
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| The Fa'alupega or Ceremonial Address of Falefa | |
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| What's in a Transcript? | |
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| Writing Interaction | |
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| Hierarchies in the Making: Space, Time, and Speaking in a Fono | |
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| A Love for Order and Its Permutations | |
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| Space | |
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| Temporal Boundaries | |
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| Speaking | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Politics and Verbal Art: Heteroglossia in the Fono | |
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| Variations across Contexts | |
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| The Lauga Plan | |
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| The Lauga as an Epic Genre | |
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| Formalized Language and Power | |
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| Variations within the Fono | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Grammar of Agency in Political Discourse | |
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| The Content of Political Speechmaking | |
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| Grammatical Structures as Framing Devices | |
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| The Expression of Agency in Samoan Grammar | |
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| Ergative Agents in Fono Discourse: Claims of Accountability | |
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| Human Agents in the Fono Discussion | |
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| Mitigated Agency | |
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| Agency and Power | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| From Political Arenas to Everyday Settings: The Grammar of Agency across Contexts | |
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| The Expression of Agency across Social Situations | |
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| In Search of Fully Expressed Agents | |
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| The Politics of Everyday Interaction I: Blaming | |
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| The Politics of Everyday Interaction II: Giving Credit | |
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| Illocutionary Force of Transitive Clauses with Agents | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Ethnographic Linguistics | |
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| Conflict and Grammar | |
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| The Grammar of Human Agency: From Information Flow to Moral Flow | |
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| Narrative Accounts | |
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| Samoan Politics | |
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| Appendix: Abbreviations in Interlinear Glosses | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |