Social Intelligence and Interaction - Expressions and Implications of the Social Bias in Human Intelligence

Klappentext Scholars from a range of disciplines are re-examining fundamental questions about human evolution, language and social institutions. Zusammenfassung Scholars from a range of disciplines are re-examining fundamental questions about human evolution! language and social institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Esther N. Goody; Part I. Primary Processes: l. The ape legacy Richard W. Byrne; 2. How to invent a shared lexicon Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst; 3. Kinship organization Nurit Bird-David; Part II. The Interactive Negotiation of Meaning in Conversation: 4. On projection Jurgen Streeck; 5. Interaction sequences and anticipatory interactive planning Paul Drew; 6. Where does foresight end and hindsight begin? David Good; Part III. Genres as Tools that Shape Interaction: 7. Politeness strategies and the attribution of intentions Penelope Brown; 8. Interaction planning and intersubjective adjustment of perspectives by communicative genres Thomas Luckmann; Part IV. Expressions of a Social Bias in Intelligence: 9. Divination as dialogue David Zeitlyn; l0. Social intelligence and prayer as dialogue Esther N. Goody; 11. Interactional biases in human thinking Stephen C. Levinson; 12. Stories in the social and mental life of people Michael Carrithers.

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• Authors: Esther N. Goody, Esther N. (University of Cambridge) Goody, Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin
• Assisted by: Esther N. Goody (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521453295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45329-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology