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Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds
- Title
- Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds / Paul Kockelman.
- Author
- Kockelman, Paul.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understanding 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. 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."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Language, culture & cognition ; 10
- Uniform Title
- Language, culture, and cognition ; 10.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
- Contents
- Language, culture, mind: emblems of the status human -- Inalienable possessions: what hearts, mothers, and shadows have in common -- Interclausal relations: how to enclose a mind by disclosing a sign -- Myths about time and theories of mind: why the moon married the sun -- Other minds and possible worlds: when psychological depth is dialogical breadth -- Interjections: why the center of emotion is at the edge of language -- Conclusion: natural constructions and social kinds.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7035
- ISBN
- 9780521516396
- 0521516390
- 9781107689022
- 1107689023
- LCCN
- 2009043232
- OCLC
- 437299193
- Author
- Kockelman, Paul.
- Title
- Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds / Paul Kockelman.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Language, culture & cognition ; 10Language, culture, and cognition ; 10.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7035