Language, Culture, And Mind: Natural Constructions And Social Kinds (Language, Culture And Cognition, 10)

Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality. And, more generally, it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

• • Author: Paul Kockelman
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 258 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107689023
• • ISBN-13: 9781107689022