Culture, Society, and Cognition: Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge

David B. Kronenfeld

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2008

Culture, Society, and Cognition

Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge

David B. Kronenfeld

Volume 3 in the series Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211481

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About this book

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.

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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Background and history Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. Language to culture – building from Kronenfeld’s semantic theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 4. Culture as distributed cognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5. An agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 6. Society (with a note on the self) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 7. Ethnicity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 8. The social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators – the Sami example Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge – a non-exhaustive list Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 10. Illustrative Examples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 11. Problems – messages vs. codes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Chapter 14. Gregory Bateson: pulling it all together Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced students in Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and Pragmatics who are interested in the form and functioning of collective cognitive systems. Anyone interested in how systems of meaning work.
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 277
Keywords: Semiotics; Pragmatics; Cognitive Anthropology

eBook

Published: December 10, 2008
ISBN: 9783110211481

Hardcover

Published: October 20, 2008
ISBN: 9783110206074