Plastic Glasses & 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? Somehow, in spite of this slipperiness, we usually understand each other in conversations, and have straightforward ways of querying each other when we sense a gap in understanding. We seem capable of using ordinary language to communicate with as much precision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094085
• ISBN13: 9780195094084
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"