Alessandro Duranti

The Anthropology of Intentions

Language in a World of Others

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other's actions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781107026391
• ISBN-10: 1107026393
• Artikelnr.: 41886329

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Duranti is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking anti-intentionalism
2. Intentions in speaking and acting: the Standard Theory and its foes
3. The avoidance of intentional discourse: a Samoan case study
4. The invention of promising in the Samoan translation of the Bible
5. Intentionality and truth, revisited
6. Speaker intentions and the role of the audience in a political campaign in the US
7. A dialogue on intentions
8. Opacity of other minds: local theories revisited
9. Intentions and their modifications: a lesson from Husserl
10. A sense of the other: from intentionality to intersubjectivity
11. The intentional continuum.