Idealized Cultural Differences in Kincept Conceptions

Tzeng, Oliver C. S.; Osgood, Charles E.; May, William

doi:10.1515/ling.1976.14.172.51

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“…The topic of kin relations has been important to anthropologists and has been explored in a variety of different languages and cultures. Data on the kinship systems of various societies have been collected and analysed extensively (e.g., Alexander 1976, Hage 1976 Stepick & Sailer 1977, Ruke-Dravina 1976, Tzeng, Osgood & May 1976, Yanagisako 1978). …”

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The child's knowledge of English kin terms

Benson

Anglin

1987

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Five groups of subjects (three-, four-, five-, and six-year-olds as well as adults) with four males and four females per group were interviewed and questioned with respect to their knowledge of twelve English kin terms: mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, wife, husband, aunt, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather. A questionnaire, which in the case of the children was filled out by their parents, helped determine rank orderings for the twelve terms with respect to the estimated relative frequency subjects had: (1) spent with each of the relations;(2) heard the words spoken; and (3) spoken the words. Analyses of the data revealed that: (1) younger children tended to discuss the words in terms of particular people and with reference to personal experience, whereas older children and adults talked in a more general way; (2) the tendency to produce relational definitions of the kin terms was negligible in the preschool years and became increasingly more frequent thereafter; (3) although with age definitions of the kin terms became more accurate, even the definitions of adults were not typically stated in terms of reciprocity; (4) experience as assessed by each of the three sets of parental rankings was successful in predicting both the quality of definitions provided by the children and the order of acquisition of the kin terms, whereas measures of semantic complexity were less successful in doing so.It has often been established that word meanings gradually develop with age (e.g., Vygotsky 1962). In numerous previous studies researchers have * Parts of this paper were presented in a talk entitled 'The child's knowledge of English kin terms' at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research m Child Development,

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Anglin

1987

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“…political figures (Tucker and Messick , 1963), social desirability (Wiggins, 1966), color perception (Helm and Tucker , 1962), personality trait inference ( Walters and Jackson , 1966), dimensions of semantic space (Wiggins and Fishbein , 1969), complex random forms (Silver , Landis , and Messick , 1966 ;Landis and Slivka , 1970;Richards , 1972), structured visual stimuli (Landis , Silver , Jones, and Messick , 1967;Landis and Slivka , 1970), self concept in disadvantaged childran (Landis , Hayman and Hall , 1971), and kinship conceptions (Tzeng, Osgood and May, 1976). Landis and his associates also demonstrated a relationship between ind ividual viewpoints about visual stimuli and perceptual-cognitive style (Landis et al, 1967;Landis and Slivka , 1970).…”

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Three-Mode Multidimensional Scaling With Points Of View Solutions

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Landis²

1978

Multivariate Behavioral Research

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“…for the Swedes and the Finns; and uniquenesses, deviations of specific cultures from universal trends, e.g., the relatively high E of black for Yucatan Mayan subjects. Results of a componential analysis in the kinship category also have demonstrated high face validity, accounting for 94 percent of cultural differences in affect attribution in the kinship domain (Tzeng, Osgood, & May, 1974).…”

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Validity tests for componential analyses of conceptual domains: A cross-cultural study in methodology

Tzeng

Osgood

1976

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An analytic prediction model for evaluation of the validities of intuited denotative features in componential analyses is outlined and illustrated for a set of concepts referring to time. The intuited components function as independent variables and the measured affective meanings of the time-relhted concepts function as dependent variables, both represented in Euclidean spaces. Predictions of attributions of affect from the denotative components proved t o have very high predictive, construct and content validities for both the cross-cultural (mean) and the majority of the culture-indigenous interconcept squared distance matrices. Although this model for validity checking is limited to those components which are predictive of affect attribution, the external criterion, it represents a type of social system analysis in which objective culture as reflected in the denotative components for a conceptual domain is related to subjective culture, i.e., evaluative, potency and activity feelings, via the mediation of the cognitive systems of the individual human beings who make the semantic differential judgments. Similarities and differences in both objective (weights given to components) and subjective (variations in affect attribution) cultures can be quantitatively expressed. CYJ

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Idealized Cultural Differences in Kincept Conceptions

Cited by 4 publications

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The child's knowledge of English kin terms

The child's knowledge of English kin terms

Three-Mode Multidimensional Scaling With Points Of View Solutions

Validity tests for componential analyses of conceptual domains: A cross-cultural study in methodology

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