Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology : : An Approach to Psychic Unity and Enculturation / / ed. by James Silverberg, Marvin D. Loflin.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1978
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (311 p.) :; Num. figs and plates
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • General Editor's Preface
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: Discourse-Level Analysis
  • Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology
  • PART TWO: Types of Discourse-Level Research
  • Trans-Cultural Logic: Testing Hypotheses in Three Languages
  • The Synthetic Informant Model on the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields
  • Formal Organization and Symbolic Representation in Lévi-Strauss
  • Plot Component and Symbolic Component in Extended Discourse
  • A Linguistic Model for Narrative Analysis
  • A Note on the Partial Equivalence of Text Grammars and Context Grammars
  • Transitional Dependencies in Informal Discourse Varieties
  • Rules and Language
  • Situational Signs and Social Attentiveness: The Conception of Reality Among a Group of Sicilian Illiterates
  • PART THREE: Problems in Explanation
  • Toward the Unification of Scientific Explanation: Evidence from Biological, Psychic, Linguistic, Cultural Universals
  • Problems in Determining the Universality of Inference-making
  • Do Anthropologists Explain?
  • PART FOUR: Universality of Inference
  • Psychogenesis from Lowest Organisms to Man
  • The Scientific Discovery of Logic: The Anthropological Significance of Empirical Research on Psychic Unity (Inference-making)
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects