| 单词 |
ethnosemantics |
| 释义 |
ethnosemantics, n. pl. (const. as sing.)|ˌɛθnəʊsiːˈmæntɪks|
[f. ethno- + semantics (see semantic n. 1): see prec.]
The study of how members of a speech community categorize their experience, esp. by analysing the semantic organization of the vocabulary of the community.
1968M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory xx. 585 Since much of the terminological data which provides the basis for the ethnosemantics of kinship derives from fieldwork that can no longer be repeated, there is little hope of correcting for overagreement in the formal accounts. 1975Gen. Systems XX. 108/2 Ideological-sector enthronement is also misplaced... Its recent resurgence in the movement of ethnosemantics (cf. ‘ethnoscience’) is blasted. 1978Social Sci. & Med. XII. 185 Dorothy Clement reports the use of ethno-semantics for opinion survey, finding, for example, that Navajos wished their community center to bear mirror-windows rather than two-way glass. 1984Dictionaries vi. 8 The cataloguing/cognitive role of lexical items as organizers of a community's universe of experience and imagination (focal object of analysis in German field theory and American ethnosemantics) must be distinguished from their role as carriers of linguistic constraints..about their uses in utterance and in context. |
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