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Culture, society, and cognition : collective goals, values, action, and knowledge /

This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual syste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kronenfeld, David B., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Mouton series in pragmatics ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • Ch. 2. Background and history
  • Ch. 3. Language to culture
  • building from Kronenfeld's semantic theory
  • Ch. 4. Culture as Distributed Cognition
  • Ch. 5. agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples
  • Ch. 6. Society (with a note on the self)
  • Ch. 7. Ethnicity
  • Ch. 8. social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators
  • the Sami example
  • Ch. 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge
  • a non-exhaustive list
  • Ch. 10. Illustrative examples
  • Ch. 11. Problems
  • messages vs. codes
  • Ch. 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships
  • Ch. 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models
  • Ch. 14. Gregory Bateson: Pulling it all together.