The Trobriand Islanders' ideology of competition and cooperation in the make - 
an anthropological-linguistic case study in the times of globalization.

Senft, Gunter

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The Trobriand Islanders' ideology of competition and cooperation in the make - an anthropological-linguistic case study in the times of globalization.

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Senft, Gunter
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Senft, G. (2010). The Trobriand Islanders' ideology of competition and cooperation in the make - an anthropological-linguistic case study in the times of globalization. Talk presented at 5th Lodz Symposium "New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics" [NDLP 2010]. Lodz, Poland. 2010-05-07 - 2010-05-09.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-9E23-1

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Competition is one of the most typical and characteristic features of the Trobriand Islanders' culture and society. It permeates all areas of the Trobriand Islanders' life. However, in the dialectics of Trobriand society, competition is always based on cooperation between competitors and their supporters. This paper documents and analyzes a speech in which a man in his late thirties transmits his version of the Trobriand ideology of competition and cooperation to a group of schoolchildren in the village center of Tauwema on Kaile'una Island. The speech documents this ideology in the make; moreover, it also reveals that this ideology is already influenced by radiations of present processes of globalization, radiations which by now have reached villages as remote as Tauwema.