Language and Thought
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Language and Thought

Anthropological Issues

  1. 535 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language and Thought

Anthropological Issues

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783112328279
eBook ISBN
9783112328286
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. General Editor's Preface
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY
  5. Introduction
  6. SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS
  7. Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods
  8. Wordless Thoughts
  9. Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology
  10. The Terminology of Time in Romanian
  11. "Meaning" for the Linguist and "Meaning" for the Anthropologist
  12. Linguistic Models in Anthropology
  13. On Speech and Thought
  14. SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE
  15. The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields
  16. Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic
  17. On an African Classificatory System
  18. Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm
  19. Australian Kin Classification
  20. Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case
  21. SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS
  22. Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins
  23. "Must" and "Ought": Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law
  24. Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature
  25. Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia
  26. Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience
  27. Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India
  28. SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS
  29. Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device
  30. Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth
  31. Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars
  32. Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture
  33. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences
  34. SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES
  35. The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle
  36. Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values
  37. The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities
  38. SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION
  39. Summary of Discussion
  40. Biographical Notes
  41. Index of Names
  42. Index of Subjects