The Meaning of Kinship Terms<sup>1</sup>

Wallace, Anthony F. C.; Atkins, John R.

doi:10.1525/aa.1960.62.1.02a00040

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“…This type of analysis was first attempted by Good enough (1956), an anthropologist who was interested in comparing the kinship terms and relations of various cultures. Others who have done related studies of this semantic field include Wallace and Atkins (1960), Romney and D'Andrade (1964), and Haviland and Clark (in pre,ss).…”

Section: Semantics: Meanings Of Individual Wordsmentioning

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Auding and reading: A developmental model.

Sticht

1974

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ForwardThe development of competent literacy skills is a requirement for comfortable survival in our technological age. We need, therefore, to have as sound an understanding as possible of the concept of literacy and the factors involved in the development of literacy skills.This volume presents a developmental model of literacy which describes the relationships among a child's basic adaptive processes, oral language, and written language skills. An extensive review of empirical studies bearing on the validity of the model will be of interest to educators and researchers concerned with reading and language development.The research project leading to this volume was conducted by the Human Resources Research Organization for the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Technical, Training Division, Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, under Air Force Contract F41609-73-C-9025. The work was performed at HumRRO Western Division, Presidio of Monterey, California. Dr. James R. Burkett, Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Technical Training Division, Lowry Air Force Base, served as the Contract Technical Monitor. This report is being issued as an AFHRL(TT) Technical Report (AFHRL-TR-74-36); it has also been designated as HumRRO Technical Report 74-11. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the official opinion or policy of the sponsor of the HumRRO research.Dr. Thomas G. Sticht, primary author of the report, was the principal investigator on the research project. Lawrence J. Beck and Robert N. Hauke contributed to the review and synthesis of literature in Chapters IV and V. Special consultants to the project were Mr. Glenn Kleiman, Stanford University, who had major responsibility for the preparation of Chapter III of the report, and Mr. James H. James, Northern Illinois University, who contributed primarily to Chapter V. All four contributors reviewed and commented on the entire report and hence they appear as authors. Special thanks are due to Nina McGiveran of HumRRO Western Division for her forbearance in working with the authors while they drafted and re-drafted the copy which she turned into a finished and polished manuscript. OverviewMany adults lack sufficient literacy skills for technical training and successful career progression. Because of the crucial role that literacy plays in instruction and job performance information regarding the nature of literacy skills and their development is needed. Such information should prove useful in the development of literacy training programs, and in the development of more effective and/or efficient methods for imparting knowledge by the spoken or printed word.Because several recent reviews of the scientific literature on reading and language skills failed to uncover many salient facts for use in guiding literacy research or development of literacy training programs, it was felt that the present review should be guided by a theory or model which could provide a rationale for sorting, sifting, and interpreting various research studies. Accordingly, a simple...

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Section: Semantics: Meanings Of Individual Wordsmentioning

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Auding and reading: A developmental model.

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1974

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“…The graphic representation of this i s called a componential paradigm or solution. Wallace and Atkins' (1960), Romney and D'Andrade's (1 964), and Goodenough's (1 965) componential paradigms for some WA, the first published of the three, omits consideration of both affinal terms and bound forms such as great-, half-, step-, etc. Wallace and Atkins present their solution as illustrative of the method of analysis and make no other claim for it. Romney and D'Andrade weigh their paradigm RD against WA and conclude on the basis of results of independent behavioral tests that RD is more "psychologically" or "cognitively" valid.…”

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psychological, semantic, and structural aspects of American English kinship terms¹

Brown¹

1974

American Ethnologist

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American English kinship terminology is an attractive and convenient vehicle for the formal investigation of kinship semantics. It has been the object of a number o f studies, most of which in one way or another relate to assumptions of componential analysis. The analyses of Wallace and Atkins (1 960), Romney and D'Andrade (1 964)) and Goodenough (1965) are the most notable of the purely componential accounts o f American kin terms and constitute a principal focus of this paper. Related, but not strictly componential, analyses have been undertaken by Durbin

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“…The authors concluded that their study produced a kinship diagram that is more adequate (closer to the patterns produced by American respondents) than the componential analysis of Wallace and Atkins (1960). The dimension of "reciprocity" was regarded as the chief ingredient accounting for the difference between the two analyses.…”

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Cognitive Aspects of American Kin Terms

Pelto

1966

American Anthropologist

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The Meaning of Kinship Terms¹

Cited by 201 publications

References 11 publications

Auding and reading: A developmental model.

Auding and reading: A developmental model.

psychological, semantic, and structural aspects of American English kinship terms¹

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Auding and reading: A developmental model.

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psychological, semantic, and structural aspects of American English kinship terms¹