Tradition as Truth & Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse - Brossura

Boyer

 
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Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted.

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Descrizione del libro

Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research.

Contenuti

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Conserved world-views or salient memories?; 2. How to think with 'empty' notions; 3. Criteria of truth; 4. Customised speech (I): truth without intentions; 5. Customised speech (II): truth without meaning; 6. Customised persons: initiation, competence and position; 7. Conclusion and programme; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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9780521374170: Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521374170 ISBN 13:  9780521374170
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1990
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