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Author:   N. J. Enfield (Senior Staff Scientist and Professor of Ethnolinguistics, Senior Staff Scientist and Professor of Ethnolinguistics, Max Planck Institute and Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780199338733

ISBN 10:   0199338736
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Relationships 1.1 The data of relationships 1.2 Context 1.3 Relationship thinking 1.4 Enacting relationships and relationship types 1.5 Relationship-grounded society 2 Sociality 2.1 Human social intelligence 2.2 Social motivations 2.3 Tools for assessment and management 2.4 Semiotic process 2.5 Norms and heuristics 2.6 Communication as tool use 2.7 Two primitive imperatives for communication 3 Enchrony 3.1 Enchrony and its scope 3.2 Causal frames for understanding meaning 3.3 Normative organization 4 Semiosis 4.1 Anatomy of the semiotic process 4.2 Flexibility in semiotic processes 4.3 Inference as a semiotic process 4.4 Cultural epidemiology as a semiotic process 4.5 Elements of the semiotic process and their possibilities 4.6 Payoffs of this framework 4.7 The Saussurean sign: a convenient untruth 4.8 A frame-content dynamic 4.9 Meaning as a public process 5 Status 5.1 Status predicts and explains behavior 5.2 Entitlements, commitments, enablements 5.3 Relationships as statuses 6 Moves 6.1 Moves are composite signs 6.2 Composite utterances are interpreted as wholes 6.3 Turn-taking: moves in linguistic clothing 6.4 The move as a privileged level of semiosis 7 Cognition 7.1 Behavior-reading 7.2 Cognition and language 7.3 Psychology as interpretative heuristic 7.4 Fear of cognition? 8 Action 8.1 Natural action versus social action 8.2 Courses of action 8.3 Speech acts and actions-en 8.4 Categories of action-en? 8.5 A composite notion of actions-en 8.6 Ontology of actions-en 8.7 A generative account of action-en 9 Agency 9.1 Flexibility and accountability 9.2 Agent unity heuristic 9.3 Joint agency 9.4 Distributed agency 10 Asymmetry 10.1 Propositions and the relativity of knowledge 10.2 Epistemic Authority 10.3 Distribution of agency in practice 10.4 Sources of Asymmetry 10.5 Our imperfect communication system 11 Culture 11.1 Cultural systems 11.2 The Kri house as a system context for social relations 11.3 Ritual in communication 11.4 Kri residence 11.5 Practical interpretation of the Kri residence: to follow a norm 11.6 Spatial distribution and diagrammatic iconicity 11.7 Sanction of norms: making the tacit explicit 11.8 Everyday ritual and social relations 12 Grammar 12.1 Language as a system 12.2 Syntagmatic relations: grammar for turns 12.3 Paradigmatic relations in linguistic grammars 12.4 Markedness: special effects of choice within a system 12.5 The Lao system of person reference 12.6 Default reference to persons in Lao 12.7 Pragmatically marked initial references 12.8 Grammar expresses social relations under the radar 13 Knowledge 13.1 Common ground 13.2 Sources of common ground 13.3 Fuel for Gricean amplicative inference 13.4 Grounding for inferring 13.5 Audience design 13.6 Affiliation and information 13.7 From information to social relations Conclusion References Index

Reviews

For all readers with an interest in the nature of human sociality and communicative behavior in general, and the link between relationship thinking and agency in particular, this volume certainly provides rich and stimulating food for thought. Ingjerd Hoem, Journal of Anthropological Research I found this book both provocative and motivational. ... it is certainly one of those that has most repaid study. In particular, I enjoyed the way the author so impeccably covered his subject via the disciplines of anthropology. semiotics, sociology and linguistics, and I have been left with much food for thought. Joe Sinclair, New Nurturing Potential

I found this book both provocative and motivational. ... it is certainly one of those that has most repaid study. In particular, I enjoyed the way the author so impeccably covered his subject via the disciplines of anthropology. semiotics, sociology and linguistics, and I have been left with much food for thought. Joe Sinclair, New Nurturing Potential

Author Information

N. J. Enfield was trained in Asian Studies and Linguistics at the Australian National University (ANU) and Melbourne University, before joining the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 2000. His research on language, culture, cognition, and social interaction has been based on regular fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. He has coordinated numerous large-scale comparative research projects testing human diversity in a range of domains. His books include Ethnosyntax (OUP 2002), Linguistic Epidemiology (Routledge 2003), Roots of Human Sociality (with SC Levinson, Berg 2006), A Grammar of Lao (Mouton 2007), The Anatomy of Meaning (CUP 2009), and Dynamics of Human Diversity (Pacific Linguistics, 2011).

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