| Description |
Electronic book |
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xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: some implications of a social origin of intelligence / Esther Goody -- Pt. I. Primary processes. 1. The ape legacy: the evolution of Machiavellian intelligence and anticipatory interactive planning / Richard W. Byrne. 2. How to invent a shared lexicon: the emergence of shared form-meaning mappings in interaction / Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst. 3. Hunter-gatherers' kinship organization: implicit roles and rules / Nurit Bird-David -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Genres as tools that shape interaction. 7. Politeness strategies and the attribution of intentions: the case of Tzeltal irony / Penelope Brown. 8. Interaction planning and intersubjective adjustment of perspectives by communicative genres / Thomas Luckmann |
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Pt. IV. Expressions of a social bias in intelligence. 9. Divination as dialogue: negotiation of meaning with random responses / David Zeitlyn. 10. Social intelligence and prayer as dialogue / Esther Goody. 11. Interactional biases in human thinking / Stephen C. Levinson. 12. Stories in the social and mental life of people / Michael Carrithers |
| Analysis |
Humans Intelligence |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, held in the spring of 1990, with the theme Some implications of a social origin of human intelligence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index |
| Subject |
Intellect -- Social aspects.
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Social intelligence.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Goody, Esther N.
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Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
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| LC no. |
94008853 |
| ISBN |
0521453291 |
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0521459494 (paperback) |
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