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UNINA9910821746203321 |
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Autore |
Kronenfeld David B. <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Culture, society, and cognition : collective goals, values, action, and knowledge / / by David B. Kronenfeld |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-99955-5 |
9786611999551 |
3-11-021148-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mouton series in pragmatics, , 1864-6409 ; ; 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cognition and culture |
Culture |
Distributed cognition |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Background and history -- Chapter 3. Language to culture - building from Kronenfeld's semantic theory -- Chapter 4. Culture as distributed cognition -- Chapter 5. An agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples -- Chapter 6. Society (with a note on the self) -- Chapter 7. Ethnicity -- Chapter 8. The social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators - the Sami example -- Chapter 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge - a non-exhaustive list -- Chapter 10. Illustrative Examples -- Chapter 11. Problems - messages vs. codes -- Chapter 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships -- Chapter 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models -- Chapter 14. Gregory Bateson: pulling it all together -- Backmatter |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a |
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