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Publication details [#5440]
Keesing, Roger M. 1979. Linguistic knowledge and cultural knowledge: Some doubts and speculations. American Anthropologist 81 (1) : 14–36. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
K. argues that semantic systems and pragmatic rules are built on and presuppose basic cultural assumptions about the world. He adduces some data from Kwaio (spoken on the Solomon Islands).