Cultural Models in Language and Thought

Name: Cultural Models in Language and Thought
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ISBN: 9780521311687

ISBN-10: 0521311683

ISBN-13: 9780521311687

Edition: 1987

Authors: Dorothy Holland, Naomi Quinn

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The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of methods, which rely heavily on linguistic data, the authors offer analyses of domains of knowledge ranging across the physical, social, and psychological worlds, and reveal the importance of tacit, presupposed knowledge in the conduct of everyday life. The authors argue that cultural knowledge is organized in 'cultural models' - storylike chains of prototypical events that unfold in simplified worlds - and explore the nature and role of these models.…

Book details

List price: $70.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Dorothy Holland is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.



Preface


List of Contributors


Introduction



Culture and cognition




Presupposed worlds, language, and discourse



The definition of lie: an examination of the folk models underlying a semantic prototype




Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges




Prestige and intimacy: the cultural models behind Americans' talk about gender types




A folk model of the mind




Reasoning and problem solving from presupposed worlds



Proverbs and cultural models: an American psychology of problem solving




Convergent evidence for a cultural model of American marriage




The role of metaphor and analogy in representing knowledge of presupposed worlds



The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English




Two theories of home heat control




How people construct mental models




Negotiating social and psychological realities



Myth and experience in the Trobriand Islands




Goals, events, and understanding in Ifaluk emotion theory




Ecuadorian illness stories: cultural knowledge in natural discourse




Explanatory systems in oral life stories




An appraisal



Models, "folk" and "cultural": paradigms regained?



Index