
Language and Material Culture
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- Intro
- Language and Material Culture
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Words for things
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.1.1 The how
- 1.1.2 The why
- 1.1.3 The where
- 1.2 Dialect geography
- 1.2.1 Wo¨rter und Sachen
- 1.3 The American Linguistic Atlas Project
- 1.4 Maps as theory
- 1.5 Mapping material culture
- 1.6 Plan of the book
- 2. A dual history. In other words: What does this awl mean?
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 A dual history
- 2.2.1 Classification
- 2.2.2 Structuralism
- 2.2.3 Ethnography
- 2.2.4 Processual archaeology
- 2.2.5 Orderly heterogeneity
- 2.2.6 The textual turn
- 2.2.7 The discursive turn
- 2.3 Conclusion
- 3. Complex adaptive systems
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.1.1 Complexity in nature: The beehive
- 3.1.2 Complexity in the human body: The brain
- 3.1.3 Complexity in human behavior: Improvisational jazz
- 3.2 Language as a complex adaptive system
- 3.3 Complex distributions
- 3.4 Complexity at work: Linguistic Atlas evidence
- 3.4.1 Why so many sofa terms?
- 3.4.2 Scalability
- 3.4.3 Physical history and the A-curve
- 3.4.4 A-curves throughout language data
- 3.4.5 Conclusion
- 4. Material culture as a complex system
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Houses as complex systems
- 4.3 Glassie's house grammar
- 4.4 Kempton's ceramic prototypes
- 4.5 Labov's category boundaries
- 4.5.1 Prototypes and schemas
- 4.6 Conclusion
- 5. Case study: Pantry
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.1.1 Linguistic Atlas responses to the 'pantry' question
- 5.1.2 Pantry term etymologies
- 5.2 The development of the American pantry
- 5.3 Complex systems and the individual
- 6. Case study: Estate inventories
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Inventory corpora
- 6.2.1 Room designations
- 6.2.2 Cupboards
- 7. Case study: Historic American building survey
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.1.1 Items included in a HABS file
- 7.1.2 HABS room designations
- 7.2 HABS commentary
- 7.3 HABS files as emergent texts
- 7.3.1 The George Jacobs House
- 7.3.2 Emergent meaning
- 7.4 Final note on HABS
- 8. Conclusion: On artifacts
- 8.1 Observational artifacts
- 8.2 All the variation
- 8.3 Schemas
- 8.4 Local practice
- 8.5 Question boundaries
- 8.6 Conclusion
- Appendix A: Complete data sets from Chapter 1
- Appendix B: Complete data sets from Chapter 3
- Appendix C: Complete data set from Chapter 4
- Appendix D: Complete data sets from Chapter 5
- Appendix E: Complete data sets from Chapter 6
- Appendix F: Complete data sets from Chapter 7
- References
- Index
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