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Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology : An Approach to Psychic Unity and Enculturation.

Loflin, Marvin D.

Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology : An Approach to Psychic Unity and Enculturation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (328 pages) - World Anthropology Series . - World Anthropology Series .

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- PART ONE: DISCOURSE-LEVEL ANALYSIS -- Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology -- PART TWO: TYPES OF DISCOURSE-LEVEL RESEARCH -- Trans-cultural Logic: Testing Hypotheses in Three Languages -- The Synthetic Informant Model on the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Formal Organization and Symbolic Representation in Lévistrauss -- Plot Component and Symbolic Component in Extended Discourse -- A Linguistic Model for Narrative Analysis -- A Note on the Partial Equivalence of Text Grammars and Context Grammars -- Transitional Dependencies in Informal Discourse Varieties -- Rules and Language -- Situational Signs and Social Attentiveness: The Conception of Reality Among a Group of Sicilian Illiterates -- PART THREE: PROBLEMS IN EXPLANATION -- Toward the Unification of Scientific Explanation: Evidence from Biological, Psychic, Linguistic, Cultural Universals -- Problems in Determining the Universality of Inference-Making -- Do Anthropologists Explain? -- PART FOUR: UNIVERSALITY OF INFERENCE -- Psychogenesis from Lowest Organisms to Man -- The Scientific Discovery of Logic: The Anthropological Significance of Empirical Research on Psychic Unity (Inference-Making) -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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