Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language

This article reproduces an archived and previously unpublished paper by Bronislaw Malinowski entitled “The anthropological approach to language” which he delivered to a meeting of the elite Monday Night Group in the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University in November 1941. The social “context of situation” of Malinowski’s seminar presentation is reconstructed together with a brief consideration of his contribution to linguistic theory. A commentary on his paper refers to Malinowski’s relationship with several of his peers, including discussion of the critical reception given to the second volume of his last monograph on the Trobriand Islands, Coral Gardens and their Magic. Finally, the “biographical context of situation” describes Malinowski’s lethally busy schedule six months before his death, referring to his other public presentations during the months of October and November 1941.

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Manners and Meaning in West Sumatra: The Social Context of Consciousness. By Frederick K. Errington. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. xiv, 175 pp. Photographs, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2056881 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 192-194

Author(s):

Benedict R. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

The Social ◽

West Sumatra

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Toward socio-contextual perspective: A case in analyzing texts

International Journal of Linguistics Literature and Culture ◽

10.21744/ijllc.v7n2.1467 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ni Nyoman Ayu Tri Hidayanti

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Text Structure ◽

Text Organization ◽

The Social ◽

Context Of Situation

The purpose of this study is to analyze the social context, the text organization, and the text structure. The data that are analyzed in this study are taken from the book entitled Tales of Wisdom. There are two main texts are used in this study. The theory used was Halliday (1978) advocated placing the context of situation into a broader social context. The result of this study revealed that all of the elements of the context of situation (field, tenor, mode) were found in the texts. Both of the texts were well organized seen from the text organization including starting (orientation), content (complication), and ending (resolution). In terms of text structure, the use of reference and conjunction were frequently occurred. Of the four sub conjunctions, only three sub conjunctions were appeared and additive is the most one of all.

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‘Rinri’: An Incitement towards the Existence of Robots in Japanese Society

The International Review of Information Ethics ◽

10.29173/irie143 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 78-83

Author(s):

Naho Kitano

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Social Structure ◽

Japanese Society ◽

Social Robotics ◽

High Tech ◽

Human Relations ◽

Japanese People ◽

Technology Industry ◽

The Social ◽

Robot Technology

Known as the “Robot Kingdom”, Japan has launched, with granting outstanding governmental budgets, a new strategic plan in order to create new markets for the RT (Robot-Technology) Industry. Now that the social structure is greatly modernized and a high social functionality has been achieved, robots in the society are taking a popular role for Japanese people. The motivation for such great high-tech developments has to be researched in how human relations work, as well as in the customs and psychology of the Japanese. With examining the background of the Japanese affirmativeness toward Robots, this paper reveals the Animism and the Japanese ethics, “Rinri”, that benefit the Japanese Robotics. First the introduction describes the Japanese social context which serves in order to illustrate the term “Rinri”. The meaning of Japanese Animism is explained in order to understand why Rinri is to be considered as an incitement for Japanese social robotics.

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