{"pk":7057,"title":"Syncretic Practice: Change and Maintenance of the Samoan/Samoan American ^d I huh","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Samoans establish new communities and identities through different linguistic strategies in the urban context ofLos Angeles. I isolated two kinds of strategies, the \"minimal grasp\" and the \"tag particle\" in both Samoan and Samoan-English, and traced the distribution of their use in everyday encounters between adults and children. Different models for socializing appropriate behavior—the Samoan way (fa^aSdmoa) and the American way (fa^apalagi)—co-exist within the same speech community. I argue that by comparing the different social organizations of language use, we may uncover how certain forms may be used to simultaneously maintain and transform cultural practices within a syncretic social space.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Applied Linguistics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w70d25z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reynolds","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-02-05T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2011-02-05T08:00:00Z","date_published":"1996-06-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ial/article/7057/galley/4177/download/"}]}