Relatively Speaking. Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya. - DANZIGER, EVE
Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
KORTE INHOUD
Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition.
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2001Uitgever: Oxford University Press, USA136 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195099109ISBN-13: 9780195099102Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's publisher's cloth hardback, title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: x, 126pp., notes, bibliography, index. Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, she examines the semantic complexity of parti...
