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Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds /
"Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understanding of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Language, culture, and cognition ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understanding of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as, 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories, such as mood, status, and evidentiality. More generally, it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511712487 0511712480 9780511711893 0511711891 1107206553 9781107206557 1283149508 9781283149501 0511713312 9780511713316 9786613149503 6613149500 0511714564 9780511714566 0511715811 9780511715815 0511722621 9780511722622 |