Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds

Author/Creator:

Kockelman, Paul, author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Language, culture, and mind : natural constructions and social kinds / Paul Kockelman

Series Titles:

Language, culture, and cognition ; 10
Language, culture, and cognition ; 10.

Variant Titles:

Language, Culture, & Mind

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Language and culture--Guatemala
Language and culture
Mayas--Languages

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Language, culture, mind: emblems of the status human -- Inalienable possessions: what hearts, mothers, and shadows have in common -- Interclausal relations: how to enclose a mind by disclosing a sign -- Myths about time and theories of mind: why the moon married the sun -- Other minds and possible worlds: when psychological depth is dialogical breadth -- Interjections: why the center of emotion is at the edge of language -- Conclusion: natural constructions and social kinds.

Summary:

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.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

General Note:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936955111302486

ISBN:

1-107-20655-3
1-283-14950-8
0-511-71331-2
9786613149503
0-511-71456-4
0-511-71248-0
0-511-71581-1
0-511-71189-1
0-511-72262-1

OCLC Number:

630536428