Relationship thinking : agency, enchrony, and human sociality / N.J. Enfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enfield, N. J., 1966- Author.

Series:

Foundations of Human Interaction

Foundations of human interaction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Semiotic--Social aspects.

Semiotic.

Social interaction.

Cognition.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Relationship Thinking, N. J. Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings, by putting human relationships front and center. It is a naturalistic approach to human sociality, grounded in the systematic study of real-time data from social interaction in everyday life. Many of the illustrative examples and analyses in the book come from the author's long-term field work in Laos.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Relationships; 1.1 The Data of Relationships; 1.2 Context; 1.3 Relationship Thinking; 1.4 Enacting Relationships and Relationship Types; 1.5 Relationship-Grounded Society; 2 Sociality; 2.1 Human Social Intelligence; 2.2 Social Motivations; 2.3 Tools for Assessment and Management; 2.4 Semiotic Process; 2.5 Norms and Heuristics; 2.6 Communication as Tool Use; 2.7 Two Primitive Imperatives for Communication; 3 Enchrony; 3.1 Enchrony and Its Scope; 3.2 Causal Frames for Understanding Meaning; 3.3 Normative Organization

4 Semiosis4.1 Anatomy of the Semiotic Process; 4.2 Flexibility in Semiotic Processes; 4.3 Inference as a Semiotic Process; 4.4 Cultural Epidemiology as a Semiotic Process; 4.5 Elements of the Semiotic Process and Their Possibilities; 4.6 Payoffs of This Framework; 4.7 The Saussurean Sign: A Convenient Untruth; 4.8 A Frame-Content Dynamic; 4.9 Meaning as a Public Process; 5 Status; 5.1 Status Predicts and Explains Behavior; 5.2 Entitlements, Commitments, Enablements; 5.3 Relationships as Statuses; 6 Moves; 6.1 Moves Are Composite Signs; 6.2 Composite Utterances Are Interpreted as Wholes

6.3 Turn Taking: Moves in Linguistic Clothing6.4 The Move as a Privileged Level of Semiosis; 7 Cognition; 7.1 Behavior Reading; 7.2 Cognition and Language; 7.3 Psychology as Interpretive Heuristic; 7.4 Fear of Cognition?; 8 Action; 8.1 Natural Action versus Social Action; 8.2 Courses of Action; 8.3 Speech Acts and Actions [Sub(-en)]; 8.4 Categories of Action; 8.5 A Composite Notion of Actions [Sub(-en)]; 8.6 Ontology of Actions [Sub(-en)]; 8.7 A Generative Account of Action [Sub(-en)]; 9 Agency; 9.1 Flexibility and Accountability; 9.2 Agent Unity Heuristic; 9.3 Joint Agency

9.4 Distributed Agency10 Asymmetry; 10.1 Propositions and the Relativity of Knowledge; 10.2 Epistemic Authority; 10.3 Distribution of Agency in Practice; 10.4 Sources of Asymmetry; 10.5 Our Imperfect Communication System; 11 Culture; 11.1 Cultural Systems; 11.2 The Kri House as a System Context for Social Relations; 11.3 Ritual in Communication; 11.4 Kri Residence; 11.5 Practical Interpretation of the Kri Residence: To Follow a Norm; 11.6 Spatial Distribution and Diagrammatic Iconicity; 11.7 Sanction of Norms: Making the Tacit Explicit; 11.8 Everyday Ritual and Social Relations; 12 Grammar

12.1 Language as a System12.2 Syntagmatic Relations: Grammar for Turns; 12.3 Paradigmatic Relations in Linguistic Grammars; 12.4 Markedness: Special Effects of Choice Within a System; 12.5 The Lao System of Person Reference; 12.6 Default Reference to Persons in Lao; 12.7 Pragmatically Marked Initial References; 12.8 Grammar Expresses Social Relations Under the Radar; 13 Knowledge; 13.1 Common Ground; 13.2 Sources of Common Ground; 13.3 Fuel for Gricean Amplicative Inference; 13.4 Grounding for Inferring; 13.5 Audience Design; 13.6 Affiliation and Information

13.7 From Information to Social Relations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 25, 2013).

ISBN:

1-299-93988-0

0-19-933874-4

9780199338733

OCLC:

868593730