Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 528 g
Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 528 g
Reihe: Language Culture and Cognition
ISBN: 978-0-521-51639-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings 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. And, 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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Language, culture, mind: emblems of the status human; 2. Inalienable possessions: what hearts, mothers, and shadows have in common; 3. Interclausal relations: how to enclose a mind by disclosing a sign; 4. Myths about time and theories of mind: why the moon married the sun; 5. Other minds and possible worlds: when psychological depth is dialogical breadth; 6. Interjections: why the center of emotion is at the edge of language; 7. Conclusion: natural constructions and social kinds.
