Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition

by David Kronenfeld and David B. Kronenfeld

Book Overview

Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language's variability of reference and the mechanisms which enable us to understand each other in spite of the variability. Kronenfeld's theory, rooted in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094077
• ISBN13: 9780195094077
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"