Semantics, cross-cultural style

Cognition

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Machery, Edouard ^a,b   Mallon, Ron ^c   Nichols, Shaun ^d   Stich, Stephen P ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d School of Business   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal historical theory; Cultural differences; Descriptivism; Kripke; Proper names; Reference; Semantic intuitions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEORY;

EID: 1442302277     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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