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Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers - Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers - Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 3
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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.
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