Social Intelligence and Interaction
Social Intelligence and Interaction
Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence
There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social interdependence. The unique development of human intelligence was probably linked to the use of spoken language, but language itself evolved in the context of social interaction, and in its development it has shaped - and been shaped by - social institutions. Taking as their starting-point the social production of intelligence and of language, scholars across a range of disciplines are beginning to rethink fundamental questions about human evolution, language and social institutions. This volume brings together anthropologists, linguists, primatologists and psychologists, all working on this new frontier of research.
- Highly original study of human evolution, language and social institutions
- Explores the subject from the perspective of different scholars from across a wide range of disciplines
- Editor is previous Press author and the contributors are all well-known and highly respected in their own fields
Product details
March 1995Paperback
9780521459495
324 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.48kg
3 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Esther N. Goody
- Part I. Primary Processes: l. The ape legacy Richard W. Byrne
- 2. How to invent a shared lexicon Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst
- 3. Kinship organization Nurit Bird-David
- Part II. The Interactive Negotiation of Meaning in Conversation:
- 4. On projection Jurgen Streeck
- 5. Interaction sequences and anticipatory interactive planning Paul Drew
- 6. Where does foresight end and hindsight begin? David Good
- Part III. Genres as Tools that Shape Interaction:
- 7. Politeness strategies and the attribution of intentions Penelope Brown
- 8. Interaction planning and intersubjective adjustment of perspectives by communicative genres Thomas Luckmann
- Part IV. Expressions of a Social Bias in Intelligence:
- 9. Divination as dialogue David Zeitlyn
- l0. Social intelligence and prayer as dialogue Esther N. Goody
- 11. Interactional biases in human thinking Stephen C. Levinson
- 12. Stories in the social and mental life of people Michael Carrithers.
