Culture, Society, and Cognition: Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge

by David B. Kronenfeld and David B.

This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110206072
• ISBN13: 9783110206074
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary