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- Title
Lexical universals of kinship and social cognition.
- Authors
Wierzbicka, Anna
- Abstract
Jones recognizes the existence of “primitives of conceptual structures,” out of which “local representations of kinship are constructed.” NSM semantics has identified these primitives through a cross-linguistic search for lexical universals (“NSM” stands for Natural Semantic Metalanguage and also for the corresponding linguistic theory). These empirical universals provide, I argue, a better bridge between cognitive anthropology and evolutionary psychology than the abstract constructs of OT, with dubious claim to conceptual reality.
- Subjects
KINSHIP; SOCIAL perception; LINGUISTIC universals; LEXICON; SEMANTICS; CONCEPTUAL structures; SIMILARITY (Language learning); METALANGUAGE; EVOLUTIONARY psychology
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 5, p403
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X10001433