Kronenfeld Culture, Society, and Cognition

Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-021148-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 291 Seiten

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]ISSN

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 system, and then elaborates a version of 'cultural models' that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced students in Cultural

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kronenfeld, David B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;9
3;Chapter 1. Introduction;15
4;Chapter 2. Background and history;54
5;Chapter 3. Language to culture – building from Kronenfeld’s semantic theory;88
6;Chapter 4. Culture as distributed cognition;97
7;Chapter 5. An agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples;121
8;Chapter 6. Society (with a note on the self);134
9;Chapter 7. Ethnicity;152
10;Chapter 8. The social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators – the Sami example;163
11;Chapter 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge – a non-exhaustive list;176
12;Chapter 10. Illustrative Examples;203
13;Chapter 11. Problems – messages vs. codes;212
14;Chapter 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships;233
15;Chapter 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models;241
16;Chapter 14. Gregory Bateson: pulling it all together;264
17;Backmatter;277

Über Autor(innen)

David B. Kronenfeld, University of California at Riverside, USA.