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Levinson, Stephen C. 1995. Cognitive anthropology. In Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. Manual. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
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This paper discusses the historical background of cognitive anthropology and the reconstruction of the subject as a field where the holistic vision of anthropology can contribute to the many specialized but fractionated sciences of the Mind. It is argued that linguistic pragmatics and cognitive anthropology share a fundamental overlap of interests and that the perceived convergence degree between cognitive anthropology and the different branches of the study of language depends on one’s views on the role of language in cognition.