Roger W Wescott
Biographic Data
| ID | 108755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger W Wescott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wescott |
| SIGNATURE | WESCOTT R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drew University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Whence Language
Toward a more concise inventory of Proto-Indo-European roots
Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens: The Evidence for and Implications of a Late Origin of Vocal Language [and Comments and Replies]
From Brightness to Hue: An Explanatory Model of Color-Category Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
Aspects of English Colour Collocations and Idioms
Liberation Sociology: Sociology for People: Toward a Caring Profession
Anthropology Apothegms
English Etymology
Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Human Nature: Toward a Grammar of Interaction and Discourse . Harvey B. Sarles
Lexicon of Black English
"The Anthropology of the Future" as an Academic Discipline
Giambattista Vico as a Philologist
Language Origins
Apes, Men and Language
On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech
phonological systems or on the basis of their fidelity to model systems than on the basis of the success of the larger revolutions with which they are associated: revolutions in the production and consumption of economic goods (leading to new rural-urban populations [sic] distributions, new jobs, new training programs, new avocations, new pastimes, and new purposive social groups) and revolutions in the distributions of power and influence. All o…
Elamite and Dravidian: Further Evidence of Relationship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper presents the correspondences in verbal morphologies to support the existing lexical and other morphological evidence (reported elsewhere) that the Dravidian language family is closely cognate with Elamite. It uses primarily Achaemenid Elamite, for which the most detail is available, and in particular the description of the verb given by R. T. Hallock. A great deal of use is made of Dravidian Ver Morphology by P. S. Subrahmanyam. For on…
Tonal iconicity in Bini colour terms
Bini Names in Nigeria and Georgia
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply]
An examination of Maya art from southern Mesoamerica shows the following art motifs appearing with some regularity throughout the archaeological record, from Pre-Classic to Post-Conquest times: (a) mushroom stones and mushroom pottery, (b) the frog/toad motif, and (c) the water lily motif. The thesis of this papers is that these flora and fauna represented in art are related to and influenced by the psychotropic properties of the mushroom, toad, …
Linguistics: Psycholinguistics . DAN I. SLOBIN
On Language Affinities
Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply]
Wallace, Tylor, Wundt, Johannesson, and others have proposed that human language had its basis in hand and arm gestures. The Gardners' work with the chimpanzee Washoe, Premack's study of the chimpanzee Sarah, and continuing experiments along these lines indicate that neural restructuring would not have been necessary for the protohominid acquisition of a simple propositional gesture or sign language which did not involve cross-modal transfer at a…
Linguistics: Approaches to Animal Communication. THOMAS A. Sebeok and ALEXANDRA Ramsay
Linguistics: Language Behavior: A Book of Readings in Communication. JOHNNYE Akin, Alvin GOLDBERG, Gail Myers, and Joseph STEWART
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply]
Wallace, Tylor, Wundt, Johannesson, and others have proposed that human language had its basis in hand and arm gestures. The Gardners' work with the chimpanzee Washoe, Premack's study of the chimpanzee Sarah, and continuing experiments along these lines indicate that neural restructuring would not have been necessary for the protohominid acquisition of a simple propositional gesture or sign language which did not involve cross-modal transfer at a…
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
From Brightness to Hue: An Explanatory Model of Color-Category Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply]
An examination of Maya art from southern Mesoamerica shows the following art motifs appearing with some regularity throughout the archaeological record, from Pre-Classic to Post-Conquest times: (a) mushroom stones and mushroom pottery, (b) the frog/toad motif, and (c) the water lily motif. The thesis of this papers is that these flora and fauna represented in art are related to and influenced by the psychotropic properties of the mushroom, toad, …
Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech
phonological systems or on the basis of their fidelity to model systems than on the basis of the success of the larger revolutions with which they are associated: revolutions in the production and consumption of economic goods (leading to new rural-urban populations [sic] distributions, new jobs, new training programs, new avocations, new pastimes, and new purposive social groups) and revolutions in the distributions of power and influence. All o…
Apes, Men and Language
Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens: The Evidence for and Implications of a Late Origin of Vocal Language [and Comments and Replies]
Linguistic Iconism
Since at least the time of Ferdinand de Saussure, most linguists have insisted that language is a system of exclusively symbolic—that is, arbitrary—signs. There is, however, growing evidence that language contains many elements which are iconic—that is, imitative of non-linguistic reality
Ancient Egypt and Modern Africa
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Labio-Velarity and Derogation in English: A Study in Phonosemic Correlation
N 4 NOVEMBER 1971, Allen Walker Read of Columbia University, President of the American Society of Geolinguistics, spoke at Drew University on Ethnic Insult in American English. Among his auditors on that occasion was Charles Sleeth, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, who noted, during the discussion period following Read's presentation, that the phonic element common to such slur words as Nigger, Kike, and Dago is velar occlusion. Building…
Hominid Uprightness and Primate Display
Elamite and Dravidian: Further Evidence of Relationship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper presents the correspondences in verbal morphologies to support the existing lexical and other morphological evidence (reported elsewhere) that the Dravidian language family is closely cognate with Elamite. It uses primarily Achaemenid Elamite, for which the most detail is available, and in particular the description of the verb given by R. T. Hallock. A great deal of use is made of Dravidian Ver Morphology by P. S. Subrahmanyam. For on…
Types of Vowel Alternation in English
The Enumeration of Civilizations
In view of the remarkable popularity, during the past century, of scholarly books and academic courses on civilization, it is surprising how few (as I term practitioners of the comparative study of civilization) have troubled to give an explicit enumeration of the civilizations which they describe and compare. Biologists are rarely so negligent. When, for example, comparative anatomists or physiologists wish to contrast vertebrate or insect taxa …
The Divine Animal: An Exploration of Human Potentiality
Continuities in Cultural Evolution. Margaret Mead
Le parler ngbaka de Bokanga: Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax
Ancient Egypt and Modern Africa
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Essays in the Science of Culture in Honor of Leslie A. White
Awakening
Invocation to Olokun
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
Adjuration
Le parler ngbaka de Bokanga: Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax
Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
Continuities in Cultural Evolution. Margaret Mead
Hominid Uprightness and Primate Display
Chaos
The Divine Animal: An Exploration of Human Potentiality
English-Edo Wordlist: An Index to Melzian's Bini-English Dictionary
Types of Vowel Alternation in English
The Enumeration of Civilizations
In view of the remarkable popularity, during the past century, of scholarly books and academic courses on civilization, it is surprising how few (as I term practitioners of the comparative study of civilization) have troubled to give an explicit enumeration of the civilizations which they describe and compare. Biologists are rarely so negligent. When, for example, comparative anatomists or physiologists wish to contrast vertebrate or insect taxa …
Labio-Velarity and Derogation in English: A Study in Phonosemic Correlation
N 4 NOVEMBER 1971, Allen Walker Read of Columbia University, President of the American Society of Geolinguistics, spoke at Drew University on Ethnic Insult in American English. Among his auditors on that occasion was Charles Sleeth, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, who noted, during the discussion period following Read's presentation, that the phonic element common to such slur words as Nigger, Kike, and Dago is velar occlusion. Building…
Linguistic Iconism
Since at least the time of Ferdinand de Saussure, most linguists have insisted that language is a system of exclusively symbolic—that is, arbitrary—signs. There is, however, growing evidence that language contains many elements which are iconic—that is, imitative of non-linguistic reality
Education: La Réproduction: éléments pur une théorie du système d'enseignement. Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-CLAUDE Passeron
Linguistics: Approaches to Animal Communication. THOMAS A. Sebeok and ALEXANDRA Ramsay
Linguistics: Language Behavior: A Book of Readings in Communication. JOHNNYE Akin, Alvin GOLDBERG, Gail Myers, and Joseph STEWART
Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply]
Wallace, Tylor, Wundt, Johannesson, and others have proposed that human language had its basis in hand and arm gestures. The Gardners' work with the chimpanzee Washoe, Premack's study of the chimpanzee Sarah, and continuing experiments along these lines indicate that neural restructuring would not have been necessary for the protohominid acquisition of a simple propositional gesture or sign language which did not involve cross-modal transfer at a…
Bini Names in Nigeria and Georgia
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply]
An examination of Maya art from southern Mesoamerica shows the following art motifs appearing with some regularity throughout the archaeological record, from Pre-Classic to Post-Conquest times: (a) mushroom stones and mushroom pottery, (b) the frog/toad motif, and (c) the water lily motif. The thesis of this papers is that these flora and fauna represented in art are related to and influenced by the psychotropic properties of the mushroom, toad, …
Linguistics: Psycholinguistics . DAN I. SLOBIN
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