Language and Material Culture.

Intro -- Language and Material Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Words for things -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 The how -- 1.1.2 The why -- 1.1.3 The where -- 1.2 Dialect geography -- 1.2.1 Wörter und Sachen -- 1.3 The American Linguistic Atlas Project -- 1.4 Maps as theory -- 1.5 Mapping material culture -- 1.6 Plan of the book -- 2. A dual history. In other words: What does this awl mean? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A dual history -- 2.2.1 Classification -- 2.2.2 Structuralism -- 2.2.3 Ethnography -- 2.2.4 Processual archaeology -- 2.2.5 Orderly heterogeneity -- 2.2.6 The textual turn -- 2.2.7 The discursive turn -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3. Complex adaptive systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Complexity in nature: The beehive -- 3.1.2 Complexity in the human body: The brain -- 3.1.3 Complexity in human behavior: Improvisational jazz -- 3.2 Language as a complex adaptive system -- 3.3 Complex distributions -- 3.4 Complexity at work: Linguistic Atlas evidence -- 3.4.1 Why so many sofa terms? -- 3.4.2 Scalability -- 3.4.3 Physical history and the A-curve -- 3.4.4 A-curves throughout language data -- 3.4.5 Conclusion -- 4. Material culture as a complex system -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Houses as complex systems -- 4.3 Glassie's house grammar -- 4.4 Kempton's ceramic prototypes -- 4.5 Labov's category boundaries -- 4.5.1 Prototypes and schemas -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5. Case study: Pantry -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Linguistic Atlas responses to the 'pantry' question -- 5.1.2 Pantry term etymologies -- 5.2 The development of the American pantry -- 5.3 Complex systems and the individual -- 6. Case study: Estate inventories -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Inventory corpora -- 6.2.1 Room designations -- 6.2.2 Cupboards.

7. Case study: Historic American building survey -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 Items included in a HABS file -- 7.1.2 HABS room designations -- 7.2 HABS commentary -- 7.3 HABS files as emergent texts -- 7.3.1 The George Jacobs House -- 7.3.2 Emergent meaning -- 7.4 Final note on HABS -- 8. Conclusion: On artifacts -- 8.1 Observational artifacts -- 8.2 All the variation -- 8.3 Schemas -- 8.4 Local practice -- 8.5 Question boundaries -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Complete data sets from Chapter 1 -- Appendix B: Complete data sets from Chapter 3 -- Appendix C: Complete data set from Chapter 4 -- Appendix D: Complete data sets from Chapter 5 -- Appendix E: Complete data sets from Chapter 6 -- Appendix F: Complete data sets from Chapter 7 -- References -- Index.

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