Talk and Taxonomy

A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors

• Author(s): Peter Eglin,
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
• Pages: 125
• ISBN_13: 9789027281067
  ISBN_10: 9027281068
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.