The Utility of Meaning: What Words Mean and Why by Enfield, N. J. [Hardback]

Description: This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life, and explores relations between language, communication, culture, and mind. It contains extensive data from the author's fieldwork on language and culture in Laos. N. J. Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, and a senior staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen. He has carried out extensive field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos, with a focus on language, culture, cognition, and social interaction. His books include Ethnosyntax (OUP 2002), Linguistic Epidemiology (Routledge 2003), A Grammar of Lao (Mouton de Gruyter 2007), The Anatomy of Meaning (CUP 2009), Relationship Thinking (OUP 2013), and The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (with P Kockelman and J Sidnell, 2014). He has published over 100 academic articles and reviews. Conventions for linguistic examples; List of figures and tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Meanings are layered; 3 Meanings are multiple; 4 Meanings are anthropocentric; 5 Meanings are cultural; 6 Meanings are distributed; 7 Conclusion: Meanings are useful; References; Index

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