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Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
Paul Kockelman
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Description for Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
hardcover. Examines how social relationships are developed and maintained through language. Series: Language, Culture and Cognition. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b/w illus. 21 tables. BIC Classification: CFB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 53.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Language, Culture and Cognition
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521516396
SKU
V9780521516396
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About Paul Kockelman
Paul Kockelman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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