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Author:   Stephen C. Levinson ,  Nicholas J. Enfield
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781845203931

ISBN 10:   1845203933
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   01 September 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

* Introduction: Human Sociality as a New Interdisciplinary FieldN.J. Enfield and Stepehn C. Levinson* Part 1: Properties of Human Interaction* On the Human 'Interaction Engine'Stephen C. Levinson* Interaction: The Infrastructure for Social Institutions, the Natural Ecological Niche for Language, and the Arena in which Culture is EnactedEmanuel A. Schegloff* Human Sociality as Mutual Orientation in a Rich Interactive Environment: Multimodal Utterances and Pointing in AphasiaCharles Goodwin* Social Actions, Social CommitmentsHerbert H. Clark* Part 2: Psychological Foundations* Infant Pointing at 12 Months: Communicative Goals, Motives, and Social-Cognitive AbilitiesUlf Liszkowski* The Development Interdependence of Theory of Mind and LanguageJanet Wilde Astington* Constructing the Social Mind: Language and False-Belief UnderstandingJennie E. Pyers* Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the Transmission of Cultural KnowledgeGyörgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra* Part 3: Culture and Sociality* The Thought that Counts: The Interactional Consequences of Variation in Cultural Theories of MeaningEve Danziger* Cultural Perspectives on Infant-Caregiver InteractionSuzanne Gaskins* Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Ritual EventWilliam F. Hanks* Habits and Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated SocialityElizabeth Keating* Part 4: Cognition in Interaction* Meeting Other Minds through Gesture: How Children Use their Hands to Reinvent Language and Distribute CognitionSusan Goldin-Meadow* The Distributed Cognition Perspective on Human InteractionEdwin Hutchins* Social Consequences of Common Ground N.J. Enfield* Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution is Incompatible with Shallow PsychologyDan Sperber* Part 5: Evolutionary Perspectives* Culture and the Evolution of the Human Social Instincts R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson* Parsing Behavior: A Mundane Origin for an Extraordinary Ability?Richard W. Byrne* Why Don't Apes Point?Michael Tomasello

Reviews

'The publication of this book is a sign of an important new development, which will recast anthropology. We have here a number of disciplines which, having previously shunned each other, are now genuinely working together in order to understand the specificity and the nature of human social life.' Maurice Bloch, London School of Economics 'This is a landmark volume, that refracts anthropological knowledge at entirely new angles that can change in fundamental ways how we think about what we do and what we know.' Jane Hill, The University of Arizona 'Social science at its best: comprehensive, compelling, and incisive. Together the chapters of Roots of Human Sociality provide a superbly-crafted and exceptionally wide-ranging account of how thought and culture create, and in turn are sustained through human social interaction.' Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, New School for Social Research

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Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson are at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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