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Language and material culture /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
38. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: Words for things
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.1.1. The how
- 1.1.2. The why
- 1.1.3. The where
- 1.2. Dialect geography
- 1.2.1. Worter und Sachen
- 1.3. The American Linguistic Atlas Project
- 1.4. Maps as theory
- 1.5. Mapping material culture
- 1.6. Plan of the book
- ch. 2 A dual history. In other words: What does this awl mean?
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2.A dual history
- 2.2.1. Classification
- 2.2.2. Structuralism
- 2.2.3. Ethnography
- 2.2.4. Processual archaeology
- 2.2.5. Orderly heterogeneity
- 2.2.6. The textual turn
- 2.2.7. The discursive turn
- 2.3. Conclusion
- ch. 3 Complex adaptive systems
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.1.1.Complexity in nature: The beehive
- 3.1.2.Complexity in the human body: The brain
- 3.1.3.Complexity in human behavior: Improvisational jazz
- 3.2. Language as a complex adaptive system
- 3.3.Complex distributions
- 3.4.Complexity at work: Linguistic Atlas evidence
- Note continued: 3.4.1. Why so many sofa terms?
- 3.4.2. Scalability
- 3.4.3. Physical history and the A-curve
- 3.4.4.A-curves throughout language data
- 3.4.5. Conclusion
- ch. 4 Material culture as a complex system
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Houses as complex systems
- 4.3. Glassie's house grammar
- 4.4. Kempton's ceramic prototypes
- 4.5. Labov's category boundaries
- 4.5.1. Prototypes and schemas
- 4.6. Conclusion
- ch. 5 Case study: Pantry
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.1.1. Linguistic Atlas responses to the ̀pantry' question
- 5.1.2. Pantry term etymologies
- 5.2. The development of the American pantry
- 5.3.Complex systems and the individual
- ch. 6 Case study: Estate inventories
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Inventory corpora
- 6.2.1. Room designations
- 6.2.2. Cupboards
- ch. 7 Case study: Historic American building survey
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.1.1. Items included in a HABS file
- 7.1.2. HABS room designations
- 7.2. HABS commentary
- Note continued: 7.3.HABS files as emergent texts
- 7.3.1.The George Jacobs House
- 7.3.2.Emergent meaning
- 7.4.Final note on HABS
- ch. 8 Conclusion: On artifacts
- 8.1.Observational artifacts
- 8.2.All the variation
- 8.3.Schemas
- 8.4.Local practice
- 8.5.Question boundaries
- 8.6.Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- Appendix A Complete data sets from Chapter 1
- LAMSAS responses for àndirons'
- Scattered distribution of dogs responses
- Scattered distribution of firedogs responses
- Appendix B Complete data sets from Chapter 3
- The top 50 words that start with <k> from Shakespeare's writing
- Shakespeare's A-curve
- LAMSAS responses to the sòfa' question
- Responses from picture-elicitation survey
- ̀Dresser' image from picture-elicitation survey
- ̀Chest on chest' image from picture-elicitation survey
- Ẁardrobe' image from picture-elicitation survey
- ̀Dresser with mirror' image from picture-elicitation survey
- Note continued: LAMSAS responses to prompt for Ì don't care for any'
- Appendix C Complete data set from Chapter 4
- Complete list of names given for ceramic vessels
- A-curve for ceramic vessel names
- Appendix D Complete data sets from Chapter 5
- Complete list of LAMSAS responses to ̀pantry' question
- LAMSAS ̀pantry' A-curve
- Appendix E Complete data sets from Chapter 6
- Colonial Massachusetts inventory corpora
- Plymouth inventories
- Suffolk County inventories
- Complete list of Mid-Essex room designations 1635
- 1749
- Appendix F Complete data sets from Chapter 7
- List of HABS houses used
- Complete list of HABS first-floor room names
- HABS first-floor rooms A-curve.