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Culture, Society, and Cognition
David B. Kronenfeld
其他書名
Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge
出版
Walter de Gruyter
, 2008-12-10
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
ISBN
3110211483
9783110211481
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ri7sw647gQEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.