Eve Danziger
Biographic Data
| ID | 75637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eve Danziger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eve |
| FAMILY NAME | Danziger |
| SIGNATURE | DANZIGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hablando de otros: La cristiandad como distinción social en los contactos tempranos de Latinoamérica
Durante más de trescientos años las historias orales de los mayas mopán han conservado detalles muy precisos sobre sus primeros contactos con los misioneros españoles. Estas historias aportan información significativa a los documentos españoles sobre la resistencia mopán a la conversión cristiana y dan testimonio de un período prolongado en el que los mopanes cristianizados que vivían en aldeas misioneras españolas coexistieron como vecinos y com…
Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches
Numerous studies have found evidence of a speech community’s referential practices in discourse being predictive of its members’ behavior in nonverbal tasks. In this article, we discuss a series of exceptions to this alignment pattern, drawing on data from eleven populations of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and Oceania. These exceptions have not been discussed in conjunction with one another and the striking commonalit…
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya
"Free Speech" in Times of Conflict
Toward an anthropology of intersubjectivity
Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Here and Now: Mapping Space and Time in a Four-Part Frame of Reference Typology
I will apply the distinctions of a four-part spatial frame of reference typology (Danziger 2010) to the language of temporal sequence, arguing that the two intersecting conceptual dichotomies which make up the four cells of the spatial typology have precise analogies in the literature which discusses the language of time. This means that the two-by-two matrix of the four-part spatial typology can also be used to delineate four types of temporal r…
Introduction: From Opacity to intersubjectivity across languages and cultures
Conventional wisdom: Imagination, obedience and intersubjectivity
Distinguishing three-dimensional forms from their mirror-images: Whorfian results from users of intrinsic frames of linguistic reference
Once More with Feeling: A Forbidden Performance of the 'Great Speech' of the Mopan Maya
The Great Speech of the Mopan Maya cannot be simulated, for fear of supernatural consequences. Above all, sexual partners may not engage in it. On one occasion, however, a Mopan husband and wife did agree to demonstrate this genre to me. They were well aware that what they were doing was highly taboo, as their use of containment strategies makes clear. I propose from this example that utterances which are immune to hedging by explicit quotation m…
Deixis, gesture, and cognition in spatial Frame of Reference typology
The three Frames of Reference recognized in the current inventory of spatial-language types are differentiated by their placement of the Anchor from which the vector of search space from Ground to Figure is calculated (Levinson 1996). In certain well-recognized examples, Anchor merges with Ground. The existing analysis treats this merged component as analytically Ground rather than Anchor; its location in or out of the speech situation is therefo…
On trying and lying: Cultural configurations of Grice's Maxim of Quality
Gricean communication takes place when an audience recognizes an utterer's intention to communicate some specific content by producing a particular locution. This general view is discernible in Grice's wording of the maxim of Quality, which pivots on the idea of utterer "trying" to avoid falsehood. The cultural model of utterance interpretation among the Mopan Maya of Eastern Central America however, does not refer to the intentions of the uttere…
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science Mark Turner Oxford: University Press, 2001 183 pp
Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya
Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, she examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-sp…
Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary/Diccionario Maya Itzaj-Espanol-Ingles. Charles Andrew Hofling , Félix Fernando Tesucún
Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination
A part/whole judgment task was administered to adults in ten different language communities around the world. Participants were instructed to treat two-dimensional abstract line figures differently from the left/right mirror-image reflections of the same figures. The data support the proposal that sensitivity to this kind of mirror-image contrast is acquired: Literate individuals generally were better able to operate in terms of this distinction …
Getting Here from There: The Acquisition of "Point of View" in Mopan Maya
A study of the Mopan Maya verb tal (coming) shows that ideal adult usage makes reference to the speaker's own location. Child acquisition, however, proceeds by a process of refinement toward rather than a process of extension from this ideal. The moment at which linguistically expressed "point of view" is understood to be ideally restricted to the speaker is critical in social interactionist developmental accounts. It is only after this moment (i…
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population's…
Introduction: Language, Space, and Culture
Split Intransitivity and Active-Inactive Patterning in Mopan Maya
Parts and Their Counterparts: Spatial and Social Relationships in Mopan Maya
Les Indiens maya mopan concoivent les relations spatiales et celles ayant trait a la filiation d'une maniere identique. Leur facon de penser se caracterise par des proprietes culturelles qu'on ne retrouve pas dans toutes les cultures, mais qui n'en sont pas moins accessibles aux non-Mayas. Leur mode de pensee dans les deux domaines mentionnes est codifie grammaticalement en particulier par la construction obligatoire de la possession. Cette const…
Out of sight, out of mind: Person, perception, and function in Mopan Maya spatial deixis
En analysant des donnees provenant du discours spontane, l'A. examine le systeme deictique spatial en maya mopan, par rapport aux distinctions semantiques pertinentes pour le contexte social ainsi que pour le discours lui-meme
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population's…
On trying and lying: Cultural configurations of Grice's Maxim of Quality
Gricean communication takes place when an audience recognizes an utterer's intention to communicate some specific content by producing a particular locution. This general view is discernible in Grice's wording of the maxim of Quality, which pivots on the idea of utterer "trying" to avoid falsehood. The cultural model of utterance interpretation among the Mopan Maya of Eastern Central America however, does not refer to the intentions of the uttere…
Split Intransitivity and Active-Inactive Patterning in Mopan Maya
Parts and Their Counterparts: Spatial and Social Relationships in Mopan Maya
Les Indiens maya mopan concoivent les relations spatiales et celles ayant trait a la filiation d'une maniere identique. Leur facon de penser se caracterise par des proprietes culturelles qu'on ne retrouve pas dans toutes les cultures, mais qui n'en sont pas moins accessibles aux non-Mayas. Leur mode de pensee dans les deux domaines mentionnes est codifie grammaticalement en particulier par la construction obligatoire de la possession. Cette const…
Introduction: From Opacity to intersubjectivity across languages and cultures
Conventional wisdom: Imagination, obedience and intersubjectivity
Distinguishing three-dimensional forms from their mirror-images: Whorfian results from users of intrinsic frames of linguistic reference
Once More with Feeling: A Forbidden Performance of the 'Great Speech' of the Mopan Maya
The Great Speech of the Mopan Maya cannot be simulated, for fear of supernatural consequences. Above all, sexual partners may not engage in it. On one occasion, however, a Mopan husband and wife did agree to demonstrate this genre to me. They were well aware that what they were doing was highly taboo, as their use of containment strategies makes clear. I propose from this example that utterances which are immune to hedging by explicit quotation m…
Toward an anthropology of intersubjectivity
Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science Mark Turner Oxford: University Press, 2001 183 pp
Introduction: Language, Space, and Culture
Out of sight, out of mind: Person, perception, and function in Mopan Maya spatial deixis
En analysant des donnees provenant du discours spontane, l'A. examine le systeme deictique spatial en maya mopan, par rapport aux distinctions semantiques pertinentes pour le contexte social ainsi que pour le discours lui-meme
Out of sight, out of mind: Person, perception, and function in Mopan Maya spatial deixis
En analysant des donnees provenant du discours spontane, l'A. examine le systeme deictique spatial en maya mopan, par rapport aux distinctions semantiques pertinentes pour le contexte social ainsi que pour le discours lui-meme
Split Intransitivity and Active-Inactive Patterning in Mopan Maya
Parts and Their Counterparts: Spatial and Social Relationships in Mopan Maya
Les Indiens maya mopan concoivent les relations spatiales et celles ayant trait a la filiation d'une maniere identique. Leur facon de penser se caracterise par des proprietes culturelles qu'on ne retrouve pas dans toutes les cultures, mais qui n'en sont pas moins accessibles aux non-Mayas. Leur mode de pensee dans les deux domaines mentionnes est codifie grammaticalement en particulier par la construction obligatoire de la possession. Cette const…
Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination
A part/whole judgment task was administered to adults in ten different language communities around the world. Participants were instructed to treat two-dimensional abstract line figures differently from the left/right mirror-image reflections of the same figures. The data support the proposal that sensitivity to this kind of mirror-image contrast is acquired: Literate individuals generally were better able to operate in terms of this distinction …
Getting Here from There: The Acquisition of "Point of View" in Mopan Maya
A study of the Mopan Maya verb tal (coming) shows that ideal adult usage makes reference to the speaker's own location. Child acquisition, however, proceeds by a process of refinement toward rather than a process of extension from this ideal. The moment at which linguistically expressed "point of view" is understood to be ideally restricted to the speaker is critical in social interactionist developmental accounts. It is only after this moment (i…
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population's…
Introduction: Language, Space, and Culture
Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary/Diccionario Maya Itzaj-Espanol-Ingles. Charles Andrew Hofling , Félix Fernando Tesucún
Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya
Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, she examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-sp…
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science Mark Turner Oxford: University Press, 2001 183 pp
Deixis, gesture, and cognition in spatial Frame of Reference typology
The three Frames of Reference recognized in the current inventory of spatial-language types are differentiated by their placement of the Anchor from which the vector of search space from Ground to Figure is calculated (Levinson 1996). In certain well-recognized examples, Anchor merges with Ground. The existing analysis treats this merged component as analytically Ground rather than Anchor; its location in or out of the speech situation is therefo…
On trying and lying: Cultural configurations of Grice's Maxim of Quality
Gricean communication takes place when an audience recognizes an utterer's intention to communicate some specific content by producing a particular locution. This general view is discernible in Grice's wording of the maxim of Quality, which pivots on the idea of utterer "trying" to avoid falsehood. The cultural model of utterance interpretation among the Mopan Maya of Eastern Central America however, does not refer to the intentions of the uttere…
Distinguishing three-dimensional forms from their mirror-images: Whorfian results from users of intrinsic frames of linguistic reference
Once More with Feeling: A Forbidden Performance of the 'Great Speech' of the Mopan Maya
The Great Speech of the Mopan Maya cannot be simulated, for fear of supernatural consequences. Above all, sexual partners may not engage in it. On one occasion, however, a Mopan husband and wife did agree to demonstrate this genre to me. They were well aware that what they were doing was highly taboo, as their use of containment strategies makes clear. I propose from this example that utterances which are immune to hedging by explicit quotation m…
Here and Now: Mapping Space and Time in a Four-Part Frame of Reference Typology
I will apply the distinctions of a four-part spatial frame of reference typology (Danziger 2010) to the language of temporal sequence, arguing that the two intersecting conceptual dichotomies which make up the four cells of the spatial typology have precise analogies in the literature which discusses the language of time. This means that the two-by-two matrix of the four-part spatial typology can also be used to delineate four types of temporal r…
Introduction: From Opacity to intersubjectivity across languages and cultures
Conventional wisdom: Imagination, obedience and intersubjectivity
"Free Speech" in Times of Conflict
Toward an anthropology of intersubjectivity
Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches
Numerous studies have found evidence of a speech community’s referential practices in discourse being predictive of its members’ behavior in nonverbal tasks. In this article, we discuss a series of exceptions to this alignment pattern, drawing on data from eleven populations of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and Oceania. These exceptions have not been discussed in conjunction with one another and the striking commonalit…
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya
Hablando de otros: La cristiandad como distinción social en los contactos tempranos de Latinoamérica
Durante más de trescientos años las historias orales de los mayas mopán han conservado detalles muy precisos sobre sus primeros contactos con los misioneros españoles. Estas historias aportan información significativa a los documentos españoles sobre la resistencia mopán a la conversión cristiana y dan testimonio de un período prolongado en el que los mopanes cristianizados que vivían en aldeas misioneras españolas coexistieron como vecinos y com…
Philosophy (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Maya (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works)