Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds (Language, Culture and Cognition)

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. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.
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An aparitie	2014
Autor	Paul Kockelman
Dimensiuni	15.2 x 1.4 x 22.9 cm
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781107689022
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	258