Robert A Randall
Biographic Data
| ID | 77098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Randall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Randall |
| SIGNATURE | RANDALL R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nature of Highly Inclusive Folk-Botanical Categories
Do life-forms evolve or do uses for life? some doubts about Brown's universale hypotheses
Standard hypotheses regarding folk biological life-form evolution are not confirmed by data from Sinama, Sahaptin, and Tzeltal. This is probably because such hypotheses have been developed from highly inadequate data. Empirical determination of the focus, range, and defining features of highly inclusive categories shows that such categories are not universal, as has been claimed. Frequently, such categories class what is useful or useless, and th…
Linguistics: Australian Aboriginal Concepts . L. R. Hiatt
Seldom is heard a discouraging word in Kannada address
Susan S. Bean. Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics; A Kannada System of Address. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1978. xvi +163 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $17.00
Linguistic Theory and Language Description
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
Do life-forms evolve or do uses for life? some doubts about Brown's universale hypotheses
Standard hypotheses regarding folk biological life-form evolution are not confirmed by data from Sinama, Sahaptin, and Tzeltal. This is probably because such hypotheses have been developed from highly inadequate data. Empirical determination of the focus, range, and defining features of highly inclusive categories shows that such categories are not universal, as has been claimed. Frequently, such categories class what is useful or useless, and th…
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
The Nature of Highly Inclusive Folk-Botanical Categories
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
Linguistic Theory and Language Description
Linguistics: Australian Aboriginal Concepts . L. R. Hiatt
Seldom is heard a discouraging word in Kannada address
Susan S. Bean. Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics; A Kannada System of Address. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1978. xvi +163 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $17.00
Do life-forms evolve or do uses for life? some doubts about Brown's universale hypotheses
Standard hypotheses regarding folk biological life-form evolution are not confirmed by data from Sinama, Sahaptin, and Tzeltal. This is probably because such hypotheses have been developed from highly inadequate data. Empirical determination of the focus, range, and defining features of highly inclusive categories shows that such categories are not universal, as has been claimed. Frequently, such categories class what is useful or useless, and th…
The Nature of Highly Inclusive Folk-Botanical Categories
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)