Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology

Pericliev, Vladimir

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“…e.g. Pericliev, 2012bPericliev, , 2013. This circumstance introduces the need to make a choice among a set of equally admissible redundant alternatives (Buridan's ass problem), but our linguistic task of making a rational choice, unlike Buridan's ass's, would further be aggravated by the usually immense number of alternatives.…”

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On Redundancy in Describing Linguistic Systems

Pericliev

2015

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On Redundancy in Describing Linguistic SystemsThe notion of system of linguistic elements figures prominently in most post-Saussurian linguistics up to the present. A “system” is the network of the contrastive (or, distinctive) features each element in the system bears to the remaining elements. The meaning (valeur) of each element in the system is the set of features that are necessary and jointly sufficient to distinguish this element from all others. The paper addresses the problems of “redundancy”, i.e. the occurrence of features that are not strictly necessary in describing an element in a system. Redundancy is shown to smuggle into the description of linguistic systems, this infelicitous practice illustrated with some examples from the literature (e.g. the classical phonemic analysis of Russian by Cherry, Halle, and Jakobson, 1953). The logic and psychology of the occurrence of redundancy are briefly sketched and it is shown that, in addition to some other problems, redundancy leads to a huge and unresolvable ambiguity of descriptions of linguistic systems (the Buridan’s ass problem).

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“…This computational complexity of the task is the basic reason for the inconsistencies observed and discussed in detail of further kinship models proposed by human agents (cf. Pericliev, 2013).…”

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On Redundancy in Describing Linguistic Systems

Pericliev

2015

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“…The operation of the program is illustrated with the analysis of the complex kinship system of Serbo-Croatian, a language that has not been previously subjected to componential analysis. A detailed discussion of the problems of componential analysis, the computer program and a sizable number of illustrative examples can be found in Pericliev (2013).…”

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Componential Analysis of Kin Terms - Some Problems and their Solutions

Pericliev¹

2014

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Componential analysis of kinship vocabulary has a long tradition, but a look at the practicing of the method reveals two basic problems. The first pertains to ensuring "consistent" kin term definitions (i.e., definitions with necessary and sufficient components), and the second to the discovery and handling of multiple solutions to kinship systems. The paper introduces a computer program implemented to handle these two problems, and in general, designed to study kinship vocabulary. The program guarantees consistent componential models and the discovery of all alternative models, as well as introduces simplicity constraints to reduce the usually huge number of alternatives to a unique or just a couple of models. We illustrate the problems with examples from the literature and apply the program to a complex kinship vocabulary (Serbo-Croatian) to show its operation.

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“…4(1), June 2016 Semantically, these kinship terms resulted from the natural marriage connection can logically be analysed and compared in terms of their co-occurrence within the matrix of binary oppositions, or what anthropologists and linguists call as componential analysis technique. It is important to mention that the technique of componential analysis is essential to understand the meanings of such terms within the context of any culture (Leech, 1981;Barnard & Spencer, 2002;Pericliev, 2013).…”

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“…The technique of componential analysis is used in ethno semantics to analyse and break down the meanings of a set of lexical items that belong to different cultural domains such as kin terms, colour terms, disease names, and the like into their constituent components (Bernard, 2011;Pericliev, 2013). Nida (1975) affirmed that in order for any linguist to understand and analyse any referential meaning, he/she must recognize the essential and sufficient features and components that distinguish the meaning of any form from the other one that occurs within the same semantic domain.…”

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A Cross-Cultural and Pragmatic Study of Felicity Conditions in the Same-Sex Marriage Discourse

Alhusseini¹,

Al-Shaibani²

2016

JFLCC

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This paper investigates whether there are Felicity Conditions (FCs) for the same-sex marriage as being a contemporary practice of marriage relations in some countries. As such, the researchers adopt Austin's (1962) Felicity Conditions (FCs) to examine if conditions of satisfaction are applicable to the same-sex marriage in Christian and Islamic cultures. The researchers focus on analysing and discussing the social, religious, and linguistic conventional procedures of the speech acts of marriage, specifically in the same-sex marriage discourse. We find out that same-sex marriage in Christianity is totally different from the traditional marriage with regard to the social, religious, and linguistic conventions. Consequently, we concluded that same-sex marriage discourse has no FCs in contrast to the traditional marriage in Christianity as well as marriage in Islam which has not changed in form and opposite sex marriage.

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Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology

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On Redundancy in Describing Linguistic Systems

On Redundancy in Describing Linguistic Systems

Componential Analysis of Kin Terms - Some Problems and their Solutions

A Cross-Cultural and Pragmatic Study of Felicity Conditions in the Same-Sex Marriage Discourse

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