Title: Language, culture and the individual : a tribute to Paul Friedrich /
Authors: O'Neil, Catherine, 1964-; Scoggin, Mary.; Tuite, Kevin; Friedrich, Paul, 1927-2016.
Publisher: Lincom Europa,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Kultursemiotik.; Language and culture.
Contents: Introduction / Catherine O'Neil, Mary Scoggin and Kevin Tuite -- Interview with Paul Friedrich / Thomas Bartscherer -- Relative non-arbitrariness -- Anthropology on the borderlines : eclecticism and synthesis in the work of Paul Friedrich / John Attinasi -- Romanticism, meaning and science / Murray J. Leaf -- Performative symbols and their relative non-arbitrariness : representing women in Iranian traditional theater / William O. Beeman -- The neglected peotics of ideophony / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Sense and sensuality in sound symbolic meaning / Ellen Zimmerman -- Figuring out what an accent is : the short, personal history of an idea / Bonnie Urciuoli -- Thick translation : three soundings / John Leavitt -- Ethnographic parallax -- Seven ways of looking at old man Sage / Jeffrey Anderson -- Reputation and deliberate history in Saga Iceland / David Koester -- Aztec skins and Inca bodies : an exercise in comparative semiotics / Hajime Nakatani -- The mean of Dael. Symbolic and spatial associations of the south caucasian goddess of game animals / Kevin Tuite -- Language and the religion of politics in Chiapas / Louanna Furbee -- The tragedy of words : human agency and some Chinese doubts / Mary Scoggin -- Generosity : a story from urban Siberia, 1990-1992 / Dale Pesmen -- Urban myths and street children : coping with cultural and environmental hazards / Clementine Fujimura -- Lyrical voices -- "I know you, what you are". The use and abuse of 'tradition' in interpreting ancient Greek poetry / A.P. David -- Why did Tolstoy hate King Lear? / Katia Mitova -- Zhukovsky's two translations of Gray's "Elegy written in a country churchyard" / Catherine O'Neil -- Poetry and music in the novel The defeated by Irina Golovkina (Rimskaia-Korsakova) / Maria Pavlovszky -- Kafka's sympathetic irony. Grappling with double entendre / Malynne Sternstein -- Chinese polytropes / Jean DeBernardi -- Verbal art, politics and personal style in Highland New Guinea and beyond / Alan Rumsey.