Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology

An Approach to Psychic Unity and Enculturation

Marvin D. Loflin, James Silverberg, Marvin D. Loflin, James Silverberg

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9789027976307
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110800050
• Topic: Filología
• Subtopic: Estudios de comunicación

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Table of contents

• 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 Lévistrauss
• 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