Anthropology of Intentions - Language in a World of Others

This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other's actions.

List of contents

1. Rethinking anti-intentionalism; 2. Intentions in speaking and acting: the Standard Theory and its foes; 3. The avoidance of intentional discourse: a Samoan case study; 4. The invention of promising in the Samoan translation of the Bible; 5. Intentionality and truth, revisited; 6. Speaker intentions and the role of the audience in a political campaign in the US; 7. A dialogue on intentions; 8. Opacity of other minds: local theories revisited; 9. Intentions and their modifications: a lesson from Husserl; 10. A sense of the other: from intentionality to intersubjectivity; 11. The intentional continuum.

About the author

Alessandro Duranti is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

How and to what extent do people anticipate each other's intended actions? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable across cultures and contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Duranti, Alessandro (University of California Duranti, Duranti Alessandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107652033
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65203-3
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Anthropology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc