[Linganth] "Culture" as a functional system of distributed cognition

[David Kronenfeld]

For those who might be interested in an approach that 
takes"culture"seriously,andunderstands 
itasadifferentiallydistributedcollectivepragmaticconceptualsystem.The 
bookshowshowcultureworksandexplainswhyithastobesuchasystem.  The 
approach grows out of my work on the semantics of words and on the 
semantics and pragmatics of kinship terminological systems.


*                CultureasaSystem*

HowWeKnowtheMeaningandSignificanceofWhatWeDoandSay

*DavidB.Kronenfeld*,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside,USA

/Series:RoutledgeStudiesinAnthropology/

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August2017:234x156:134pp

     Hb:978-1-138-28918-5|£115.00

        eBook:978-1-315-26732-6|£34.99

*TABLEOFCONTENTS:*

1.Introduction
2.SemanticsandPragmatics
3.LinguisticRelativity
4.CultureasSharedDifferentiallyDistributedPragmaticKnowledge
5.SharedCulturalKnowledgeasDefiningSocialGroups
6.Prototype-Extension
7.SharedDifferentiallyDistributedCognitiveStructures
8.CulturalModelsofAction
9.FlexibilityandVariability
10.PracticalImplicationsforAnalysis
11.Conclusion

Kronenfeldproposesacognitiveapproachtoculture, 
whereincognitionreferstoknowledge--butnotjustverbalorconsciousknowledge.Culturalcognitionisthesharedpragmaticknowledgethatincludesourbehavioralaswellasconceptualknowledge--ourknowledgeofhowtoengageeachother(whetherviacooperationorcompetition)orhowtoavoidengagement,ofhowtomakesenseofwhatthosearoundussayanddo,ofhowtomakethingseither 
aloneorviaorganizedcooperation,andofhowtothinkaboutnovelproblems.Itisessentialreadingforscholarsofcognitiveanthropology,linguistic 
anthropology,sociologyofculture,philosophy,andcomputationalcognitivescience.


*Formoreinformationvisit:****www.routledge.com/9781315267326* 
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