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Introduction. Culture and cognition / Naomi Quinn & Dorothy Holland. |
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pt. 1. Presupposed worlds, language, and discourse. The definition of lie : an examination of the folk models underlying a semantic prototype / Eve E. Sweetser -- Linguistic competence and folk theories of language : two English hedges / Paul Kay -- Prestige and intimacy : the cultural models behind Americans' talk about gender types / Dorothy Holland & Debra Skinner -- A folk model of the mind / Roy D'Andrade -- |
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pt. 2. Reasoning and problem solving from presupposed worlds. Proverbs and cultural models : an American psychology of problem solving / Geoffrey M. White -- Convergent evidence for a cultural model of American marriage / Naomi Quinn. |
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pt. 3. The role of metaphor and analogy in representing knowledge of presupposed worlds. The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English / George Lakoff & Zoltan Kövecses -- Two theories of home heat control / Willett Kempton -- How people construct mental models / Allan Collins & Dedre Gentner. |
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pt. 4. Negotiating social and psychological realities. Myth and experience in the Trobriand Islands / Edwin Hutchins -- Goals, events, and understanding in Ifaluk emotion theory / Catherine Lutz -- Ecuadorian illness stories : cultural knowledge in natural discourse / Laurie Price -- Explanatory systems in oral life stories / Charlotte Linde. |
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pt. 5. An appraisal. Models, "folk" and "cultural" : paradigms regained? / Roger M. Keesing. |
| Local note | Little-348123--305131054673 |
| Local note | Little-348123--305131054673 |
| General note | Papers originally presented at a conference. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| LCCN | 86017524 |
| ISBN | 0521323460 |
| ISBN | 9780521323468 |
| ISBN | 0521311683 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780521311687 (pbk.) |
