Culture, Society, and Cognition : : Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge / / David B. Kronenfeld.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Background and history
- Chapter 3. Language to culture – building from Kronenfeld’s semantic theory
- Chapter 4. Culture as distributed cognition
- Chapter 5. An agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples
- Chapter 6. Society (with a note on the self)
- Chapter 7. Ethnicity
- Chapter 8. The social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators – the Sami example
- Chapter 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge – a non-exhaustive list
- Chapter 10. Illustrative Examples
- Chapter 11. Problems – messages vs. codes
- Chapter 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships
- Chapter 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models
- Chapter 14. Gregory Bateson: pulling it all together
- Backmatter