Publications

Publication details [#42000]

Silverstein, Michael. 2004. "Cultural" Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus. Current Anthropology 45 (5) : 621–652.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | language and culture | language game | ritual

Place, Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Journal WWW

www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/index.html

Annotation

This paper discusses methods used in linguistic anthropology to discover truly cultural conceptualizations, illustrated at the extremes of ritual efficacy and everyday conversational language games.