Meaning Life And Culture

Author : Helen Bromhead,Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781760463939

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Meaning, Life and Culture by Helen Bromhead,Zhengdao Ye Pdf

This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning—a versatile tool for exploring ‘big questions’ concerning the diversity and universals of people’s experience in the world. In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka’s former students, old and current colleagues, ‘kindred spirits’ and ‘sparring partners’ engage with her ideas and diverse body of work. These authors cover topics from the grammar of action verbs to cross-cultural pragmatics, and over 30 languages from around the world are represented. The chapters in Part 1 focus on the NSM approach and cover four themes: lexico-grammatical semantics, cultural keywords, semantics of nouns, and emotion. In Part 2, the contributors connect with a meaning-based approach from their own intellectual perspectives, including syntax, anthropology, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. The deep humanistic perspective, wide-ranging themes and interdisciplinary nature of Wierzbicka’s research are reflected in the contributions. The common thread running through all chapters is the primacy of meaning to the understanding of language and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248697614

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The Meaning of Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor de Munck
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478608462

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Culture, Self, and Meaning by Victor de Munck Pdf

In this highly informative and interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between culture and psyche, de Munck provides a substantive introduction to pertinent issues, theory, and empirical studies that lie at the junction of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. This engagingly written text reviews various approaches to such questions as: Where is culture locatedinside or outside the head? What is the selfis there a single, unified self or do many selves inhabit the body? Do institutional structures form to meet our needsor are our everyday lives simply a result of institutional structures? What is meaning and how do we study it? de Muncks examination of these different approaches illuminates the importance of the topic, expands readers understanding of human life, and points to psychological anthropologys relevance in affecting public policies.

Author : David Trend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317260288

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Everyday Culture by David Trend Pdf

Everyday Culture examines the confluence of cultural and material possibility--the bringing together of thought and action in daily life. David Trend argues that an informed and invigorated citizenry can help reverse patterns of dehumanization and social control. The impetus for Everyday Culture can be described in the observation by Raymond Williams that the "culture is ordinary," and that the fabric of meanings that inform and organize everyday life often go undervalued and unexamined. Everyday Culture shares with thinkers like Williams the conviction that it is precisely the ordinariness of culture that makes it extraordinarily important. The ubiquity of everyday culture means that it affects all aspects of contemporary economic, social, and political life.

Author : Jeremy Lent
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771423434

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The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent Pdf

“A profound personal meditation on human existence . . . weaving together . . . historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?” —Gabor Maté M.D., author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts As our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. The dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural world, has been invalidated by modern science. Award-winning author Jeremy Lent, investigates humanity’s age-old questions—Who am I? Why am I? How should I live?—from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom. The result is a breathtaking accomplishment: a rich, coherent worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness within ourselves, between each other, and with the entire natural world. It offers a compelling foundation for a new philosophical framework that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on a flourishing Earth. The Web of Meaning is for everyone looking for deep and coherent answers to the crisis of civilization. “One of the most brilliant and insightful minds of our age, Jeremy Lent has written one of the most essential and compelling books of our time.” —David Korten, author, When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community “We need, now more than ever, to figure out how to make all kinds of connections. This book can help—and therefore it can help with a lot of the urgent tasks we face.” —Bill McKibben, author, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UCAL:$B20767

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Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198038979

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English by Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198036463

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The Meanings of Social Life by Jeffrey C. Alexander Pdf

In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions. Only when these deep patterns of meaning are revealed, Alexander argues, can we understand the stubborn staying power of violence and degradation, but also the steady persistence of hope. By understanding the darker structures that restrict our imagination, we can seek to transform them. By recognizing the culture structures that sustain hope, we can allow our idealistic imaginations to gain more traction in the world. A work that will transform the way that sociologists think about culture and the social world, this book confirms Jeffrey Alexander's reputation as one of the major social theorists of our day.

Author : Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265470

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Cultural Keywords in Discourse by Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters Pdf

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.

Author : Roy F. Baumeister
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199727391

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The Cultural Animal by Roy F. Baumeister Pdf

This book provides a coherent explanation of human nature, which is to say how people think, act, and feel, what they want, and how they interact with each other. The central idea is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to `nable people to create and sustain culture.

Author : James T. Hansen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781498516310

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Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture by James T. Hansen Pdf

The creation of meaning is a central feature of human life. The full spectrum of experience, from joyful, devoted living to unbearable psychological suffering, is orchestrated by the meanings that people endorse and create. Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy examines the intersection of meaning systems, mental health culture, and counseling and psychotherapy. By viewing mental health care through the lenses of culture and history, James T. Hansen argues that a defining element of mental health culture, throughout various eras, is the relative value placed on meaning systems. Contemporary mental health care, with its idealization of symptom-based diagnostics, biological reductionism, and the medical model, severely devalues meaning systems. This devaluation has led modern counselors and psychotherapists to largely abandon the factors that should be central to their work. Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture weaves together empirical, historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives to raise awareness of the need for counseling and psychotherapy to revalue meaning systems, even while operating within a culture that disregards them.

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134522316

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Myth and Meaning by Claude Lévi-Strauss Pdf

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.

Author : Rae Simons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422296417

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All About Money: The History, Culture, and Meaning of Modern Finance by Rae Simons Pdf

Getting a job can be a great way to earn some money, gain valuable work experience, and get a sense of what you want to do in your future career. Learn all this and more in Earning Money: Jobs.

Author : Olga Lavrenova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030151683

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Spaces and Meanings by Olga Lavrenova Pdf

This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force. Introducing time and space to the discussion, the author then describes the nature of mythological time, eternity versus timelessness, and the semantics of sacred landscapes, space and ritual. These concepts are further developed in discussions of the metaphorical nature of cultural landscape, and the city as metaphor. The book explores semiotics in the cultural landscape, examining the genesis of concepts from geographical images to signs and the axiological dimension of geographical images. In her approach to the idea of cultural landscape as text, she provides detailed examples, including the Russian landscape as agent provocateur of the text, and the culture philosophical aspects and semantics of travel. It establishes the cultural landscape as a phenomenon of culture that is fixed in geographical space with the help of semiotic mechanisms—a specific area of culture of life possessing functional and ontological self-sufficiency. This book appeals readers and researchers interested in the philosophy of culture, semiotics of space, and the philosophical dimensions of culture and geography.

Author : J. Alexander,D. Bartmanski,B. Giesen,Dominik Bartma?ski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137012869

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Iconic Power by J. Alexander,D. Bartmanski,B. Giesen,Dominik Bartma?ski Pdf

A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.