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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457239603321

Autore

Eglin Peter

Titolo

Talk and taxonomy [[electronic resource] ] : a methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors / / Peter Elgin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Benjamins, 1980

ISBN

1-283-35979-0

9786613359797

90-272-8106-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; no. 8

Disciplina

401/.9

Soggetti

Language and culture

Semiotics

Physicians - Canada

Medicine - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Pragmatics : the logical and methodological adequacy of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology as sociologies attempting to account for cultural competence -- pt. 2. Data : using the same materials, an ethnosemantic study, and an ethnomethodological study, of cultural competence.

Sommario/riassunto

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.