Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS -- Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods -- Wordless Thoughts -- Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology -- The Terminology of Time in Romanian -- 'Meaning' for the Linguist and 'Meaning' for the Anthropologist -- Linguistic Models in Anthropology -- On Speech and Thought -- SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE -- The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic -- On an African Classificatory System -- Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm -- Australian Kin Classification -- Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case -- SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS -- Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins -- 'Must' and 'Ought': Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law -- Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature -- Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia -- Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience -- Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India -- SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS -- Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture -- On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences -- SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES -- The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities -- SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of SubjectsWalter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 540 pp. Englisch. Artikel-Nr. 9783112328279

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Language and Thought : Anthropological Issues

Stephen A. Wurm

Verlag: De Gruyter, 1977

ISBN 10: 3112328272 ISBN 13: 9783112328279

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS -- Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods -- Wordless Thoughts -- Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology -- The Terminology of Time in Romanian -- 'Meaning' for the Linguist and 'Meaning' for the Anthropologist -- Linguistic Models in Anthropology -- On Speech and Thought -- SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE -- The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic -- On an African Classificatory System -- Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm -- Australian Kin Classification -- Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case -- SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS -- Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins -- 'Must' and 'Ought': Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law -- Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature -- Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia -- Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience -- Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India -- SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS -- Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture -- On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences -- SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES -- The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities -- SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. Artikel-Nr. 9783112328279

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