{"id":2166,"date":"2013-05-20T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/05\/20\/abstraction-in-speech-thought-actions-under\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:44:55","slug":"abstraction-in-speech-thought-actions-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/20\/abstraction-in-speech-thought-actions-under\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>abstraction in speech &amp; thought<\/p>\n<p>actions under self-control distinguished from those not under control<\/p>\n<p>aesthetics<\/p>\n<p>affection expressed and felt<\/p>\n<p>age grades<\/p>\n<p>age statuses<\/p>\n<p>age terms<\/p>\n<p>ambivalence<\/p>\n<p>anthropomorphization<\/p>\n<p>anticipation<\/p>\n<p>antonyms<\/p>\n<p>attachment<\/p>\n<p>baby talk<\/p>\n<p>belief in supernatural\/religion<\/p>\n<p>beliefs, false<\/p>\n<p>beliefs about death<\/p>\n<p>beliefs about disease<\/p>\n<p>beliefs about fortune and misfortune<\/p>\n<p>binary cognitive distinctions<\/p>\n<p>biological mother and social mother normally the same person<\/p>\n<p>black (color term)<\/p>\n<p>body adornment<\/p>\n<p>childbirth customs<\/p>\n<p>childcare<\/p>\n<p>childhood fears<\/p>\n<p>childhood fear of loud noises<\/p>\n<p>childhood fear of strangers<\/p>\n<p>choice making (choosing alternatives)<\/p>\n<p>classification<\/p>\n<p>classification of age<\/p>\n<p>classification of behavioral propensities<\/p>\n<p>classification of body parts<\/p>\n<p>classification of colors<\/p>\n<p>classification of fauna<\/p>\n<p>classification of flora<\/p>\n<p>classification of inner states<\/p>\n<p>classification of kin<\/p>\n<p>classification of sex<\/p>\n<p>classification of space<\/p>\n<p>classification of tools<\/p>\n<p>classification of weather conditions<\/p>\n<p>coalitions<\/p>\n<p>collective identities<\/p>\n<p>conflict<\/p>\n<p>conflict, consultation to deal with<\/p>\n<p>conflict, means of dealing with<\/p>\n<p>conflict, mediation of<\/p>\n<p>conjectural reasoning<\/p>\n<p>containers<\/p>\n<p>continua (ordering as cognitive pattern)<\/p>\n<p>contrasting marked and nonmarked sememes (meaningful elements in language)<\/p>\n<p>cooking<\/p>\n<p>cooperation<\/p>\n<p>cooperative labor<\/p>\n<p>copulation normally conducted in privacy<\/p>\n<p>corporate (perpetual) statuses<\/p>\n<p>coyness display<\/p>\n<p>critical learning periods<\/p>\n<p>crying<\/p>\n<p>cultural variability<\/p>\n<p>culture<\/p>\n<p>culture\/nature distinction<\/p>\n<p>customary greetings<\/p>\n<p>daily routines<\/p>\n<p>dance<\/p>\n<p>death rituals<\/p>\n<p>decision making<\/p>\n<p>decision making, collective<\/p>\n<p>differential valuations<\/p>\n<p>directions, giving of<\/p>\n<p>discrepancies between speech, thought, and action<\/p>\n<p>dispersed groups<\/p>\n<p>distinguishing right and wrong<\/p>\n<p>diurnality<\/p>\n<p>divination<\/p>\n<p>division of labor<\/p>\n<p>division of labor by age<\/p>\n<p>division of labor by sex<\/p>\n<p>dominance\/submission<\/p>\n<p>dreams<\/p>\n<p>dream interpretation<\/p>\n<p>economic inequalities<\/p>\n<p>economic inequalities, consciousness of<\/p>\n<p>emotions<\/p>\n<p>empathy<\/p>\n<p>entification (treating patterns and relations as things)<\/p>\n<p>environment, adjustments to<\/p>\n<p>envy<\/p>\n<p>envy, symbolic means of coping with<\/p>\n<p>ethnocentrism<\/p>\n<p>etiquette<\/p>\n<p>explanation<\/p>\n<p>face (word for)<\/p>\n<p>facial communication<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of anger<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of contempt<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of disgust<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of fear<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of happiness<\/p>\n<p>facial expression of surprise<\/p>\n<p>facial expressions, masking\/modifying of<\/p>\n<p>fairness (equity), concept of<\/p>\n<p>family (or household)<\/p>\n<p>father and mother, separate kin terms for<\/p>\n<p>fears<\/p>\n<p>fear of death<\/p>\n<p>fears, ability to overcome some<\/p>\n<p>feasting<\/p>\n<p>females do more direct childcare<\/p>\n<p>figurative speech<\/p>\n<p>fire<\/p>\n<p>folklore<\/p>\n<p>food preferences<\/p>\n<p>food sharing<\/p>\n<p>future, attempts to predict<\/p>\n<p>generosity admired<\/p>\n<p>gestures<\/p>\n<p>gift giving<\/p>\n<p>good and bad distinguished<\/p>\n<p>gossip<\/p>\n<p>government<\/p>\n<p>grammar<\/p>\n<p>group living<\/p>\n<p>groups that are not based on family<\/p>\n<p>habituation<\/p>\n<p>hairstyles<\/p>\n<p>hand (word for)<\/p>\n<p>healing the sick (or attempting to)<\/p>\n<p>hope<\/p>\n<p>hospitality<\/p>\n<p>husband older than wife on average<\/p>\n<p>hygienic care<\/p>\n<p>identity, collective<\/p>\n<p>imagery<\/p>\n<p>incest between mother and son unthinkable or tabooed<\/p>\n<p>incest, prevention or avoidance<\/p>\n<p>in-group distinguished from out-group(s)<\/p>\n<p>in-group biases in favor of<\/p>\n<p>inheritance rules<\/p>\n<p>institutions (organized co-activities)<\/p>\n<p>insulting<\/p>\n<p>intention<\/p>\n<p>interest in bioforms (living things or things that resemble them)<\/p>\n<p>interpolation<\/p>\n<p>interpreting behavior<\/p>\n<p>intertwining (e.g., weaving)<\/p>\n<p>jokes<\/p>\n<p>judging others<\/p>\n<p>kin, close distinguished from distant<\/p>\n<p>kin groups<\/p>\n<p>kin terms translatable by basic relations of procreation<\/p>\n<p>kinship statuses<\/p>\n<p>language<\/p>\n<p>language employed to manipulate others<\/p>\n<p>language employed to misinform or mislead<\/p>\n<p>language is translatable<\/p>\n<p>language not a simple reflection of reality<\/p>\n<p>language, prestige from proficient use of<\/p>\n<p>law (rights and obligations)<\/p>\n<p>law (rules of membership)<\/p>\n<p>leaders<\/p>\n<p>lever<\/p>\n<p>likes and dislikes<\/p>\n<p>linguistic redundancy<\/p>\n<p>logical notions<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201cand\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201cequivalent\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201cgeneral\/particular\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201cnot\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201copposite\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201cpart\/whole\u201d<\/p>\n<p>logical notion of \u201csame\u201d<\/p>\n<p>magic<\/p>\n<p>magic to increase life<\/p>\n<p>magic to sustain life<\/p>\n<p>magic to win love<\/p>\n<p>making comparisons<\/p>\n<p>male and female and adult and child seen as having different natures<\/p>\n<p>males dominate public\/political realm<\/p>\n<p>males engage in more coalitional violence<\/p>\n<p>males more aggressive<\/p>\n<p>males more prone to lethal violence<\/p>\n<p>males more prone to theft<\/p>\n<p>males, on average, travel greater distances over lifetime<\/p>\n<p>manipulate social relations<\/p>\n<p>marking at phonemic, syntactic, and lexical levels<\/p>\n<p>marriage<\/p>\n<p>materialism<\/p>\n<p>meal times<\/p>\n<p>mearning, most units of are non-universal<\/p>\n<p>measuring<\/p>\n<p>medicine<\/p>\n<p>melody<\/p>\n<p>memory<\/p>\n<p>mental 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(numeral)<\/p>\n<p>onomatopoeia<\/p>\n<p>overestimating objectivity of thought<\/p>\n<p>pain<\/p>\n<p>past\/present\/future<\/p>\n<p>person, concept of<\/p>\n<p>personal names<\/p>\n<p>phonemes<\/p>\n<p>phonemes defined by set of minimally constrasting features<\/p>\n<p>phonemes, merging of<\/p>\n<p>phonemes, range from 10 to 70 in number<\/p>\n<p>phonemic change, inevitability of<\/p>\n<p>phonemic change, rules of<\/p>\n<p>phonemic system<\/p>\n<p>planning<\/p>\n<p>planning for future<\/p>\n<p>play<\/p>\n<p>play to perfect skills<\/p>\n<p>poetry\/rhetoric<\/p>\n<p>poetic line, uniform length range<\/p>\n<p>poetic lines characterized by repetition and variation<\/p>\n<p>poetic lines demarcated by pauses<\/p>\n<p>polysemy (one word has several meanings)<\/p>\n<p>possessive, intimate<\/p>\n<p>possessive, loose<\/p>\n<p>practice to improve skills<\/p>\n<p>precedence, concept of (that\u2019s how the leopard got its spots)<\/p>\n<p>preference for own children and close kin 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the collectivity<\/p>\n<p>sanctions include removal from the social unit<\/p>\n<p>self-control<\/p>\n<p>self distinguished from other<\/p>\n<p>self as neither wholly passive nor wholly autonomous<\/p>\n<p>self as subject and object<\/p>\n<p>self-image, awareness of (concern for what others think)<\/p>\n<p>self-image, manipulation of<\/p>\n<p>self-image, wanted to be positive<\/p>\n<p>self is responsible<\/p>\n<p>semantics<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of affecting things and people<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of dimension<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of giving<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of location<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of motion<\/p>\n<p>semantic category of other physical properties<\/p>\n<p>semantic components<\/p>\n<p>semantic components, generation<\/p>\n<p>semantic components, sex<\/p>\n<p>sememes, commonly used ones are short, infrequently used ones are longer<\/p>\n<p>senses unified<\/p>\n<p>sex differences in spatial cognition and behavior<\/p>\n<p>sex (gender) terminology is fundamentally binary<\/p>\n<p>sex statuses<\/p>\n<p>sexual attraction<\/p>\n<p>sexual attractiveness<\/p>\n<p>sexual jealousy<\/p>\n<p>sexual modesty<\/p>\n<p>sexual regulation<\/p>\n<p>sexual regulation includes incest prevention<\/p>\n<p>sexuality as focus of interest<\/p>\n<p>shame<\/p>\n<p>shelter<\/p>\n<p>sickness and death seen as related<\/p>\n<p>snakes, wariness around<\/p>\n<p>social structure<\/p>\n<p>socialization<\/p>\n<p>socialization expected from senior kin<\/p>\n<p>socialization includes toilet training<\/p>\n<p>spear<\/p>\n<p>special speech for special occasions<\/p>\n<p>statuses and roles<\/p>\n<p>statuses, ascribed and achieved<\/p>\n<p>statuses distinguished from individuals<\/p>\n<p>statuses on other than sex, age, or kinship bases<\/p>\n<p>stinginess, disapproval of<\/p>\n<p>stop\/nonstop contrasts (in speech sounds)<\/p>\n<p>succession<\/p>\n<p>sucking wounds<\/p>\n<p>sweets preferred<\/p>\n<p>symbolism<\/p>\n<p>symbolic speech<\/p>\n<p>synesthetic metaphors<\/p>\n<p>synonyms<\/p>\n<p>taboos<\/p>\n<p>tabooed foods<\/p>\n<p>tabooed utterances<\/p>\n<p>taxonomy<\/p>\n<p>territoriality<\/p>\n<p>thumb sucking<\/p>\n<p>tickling<\/p>\n<p>time<\/p>\n<p>time, cyclicity of<\/p>\n<p>tools<\/p>\n<p>tool dependency<\/p>\n<p>tool making<\/p>\n<p>tools for cutting<\/p>\n<p>tools to make tools<\/p>\n<p>tools patterned culturally<\/p>\n<p>tools, permament<\/p>\n<p>tools for pounding<\/p>\n<p>toys, playthings<\/p>\n<p>trade<\/p>\n<p>triangular awareness (assessinjg relationships among the self and two other people)<\/p>\n<p>true and false distinguished)<\/p>\n<p>turn-taking<\/p>\n<p>two (numeral)<\/p>\n<p>tying material (i.e., something like string)<\/p>\n<p>units of time<\/p>\n<p>verbs<\/p>\n<p>violence, some forms of proscribed<\/p>\n<p>visiting<\/p>\n<p>vocalic\/nonvocalic contrasts in phonemes<\/p>\n<p>vowel contrasts<\/p>\n<p>weaning<\/p>\n<p>weapons<\/p>\n<p>weather control (attempts to)<\/p>\n<p>while (color term)<\/p>\n<p>world view<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Brown, D.E. 1991. 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