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Talk and taxonomy : a methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors / Peter Elgin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eglin, Peter.
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; 1:8.
- Pragmatics & beyond ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture.
- Semiotics.
- Physicians--Canada.
- Physicians.
- Medicine--Canada--Terminology.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1980.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Pragmatics : the logical and methodological adequacy of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology as sociologies attempting to account for cultural competence
- pt. 2. Data : using the same materials, an ethnosemantic study, and an ethnomethodological study, of cultural competence.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35979-0
- 9786613359797
- 90-272-8106-8
- OCLC:
- 651842585
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