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Overview"Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says ""grab a chair"" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says ""let's buy a chair,"" they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language's variability of reference and the mechanisms which enable us to understand each other in spite of the variability. Kronenfeld's theory, rooted in the tradition of ethnoscience (or cognitive anthropology), accomplishes three things. First, it distinguishes prototypic referents from extended referents. Second, it describes the various bases of semantic extensions. Finally it details how we use the situational context of usage, the linguistic context of opposition and inclusion, and the conceptual context of knowledge about the world to interpret communicative events." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David B. Kronenfeld (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Volume: 3 Dimensions: Width: 24.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 16.40cm Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9780195094077ISBN 10: 0195094077 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 15 August 1996 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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