Language and material culture / Allison Paige Burkette, University of Mississippi.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: Words for things -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. The how -- 1.1.2. The why -- 1.1.3. The where -- 1.2. Dialect geography -- 1.2.1. Worter und Sachen -- 1.3. The American Linguistic Atlas Project -- 1.4. Maps as theory -- 1.5. Mapping material culture -- 1.6. Plan of the book -- ch. 2 A dual history. In other words: What does this awl mean? -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2.A dual history -- 2.2.1. Classification -- 2.2.2. Structuralism -- 2.2.3. Ethnography -- 2.2.4. Processual archaeology -- 2.2.5. Orderly heterogeneity -- 2.2.6. The textual turn -- 2.2.7. The discursive turn -- 2.3. Conclusion -- ch. 3 Complex adaptive systems -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.1.1.Complexity in nature: The beehive -- 3.1.2.Complexity in the human body: The brain -- 3.1.3.Complexity in human behavior: Improvisational jazz -- 3.2. Language as a complex adaptive system -- 3.3.Complex distributions -- 3.4.Complexity at work: Linguistic Atlas evidence

Note continued: 3.4.1. Why so many sofa terms? -- 3.4.2. Scalability -- 3.4.3. Physical history and the A-curve -- 3.4.4.A-curves throughout language data -- 3.4.5. Conclusion -- ch. 4 Material culture as a complex system -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Houses as complex systems -- 4.3. Glassie's house grammar -- 4.4. Kempton's ceramic prototypes -- 4.5. Labov's category boundaries -- 4.5.1. Prototypes and schemas -- 4.6. Conclusion -- ch. 5 Case study: Pantry -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. Linguistic Atlas responses to the ̀pantry' question -- 5.1.2. Pantry term etymologies -- 5.2. The development of the American pantry -- 5.3.Complex systems and the individual -- ch. 6 Case study: Estate inventories -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Inventory corpora -- 6.2.1. Room designations -- 6.2.2. Cupboards -- ch. 7 Case study: Historic American building survey -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.1.1. Items included in a HABS file -- 7.1.2. HABS room designations -- 7.2. HABS commentary

Note continued: 7.3.HABS files as emergent texts -- 7.3.1.The George Jacobs House -- 7.3.2.Emergent meaning -- 7.4.Final note on HABS -- ch. 8 Conclusion: On artifacts -- 8.1.Observational artifacts -- 8.2.All the variation -- 8.3.Schemas -- 8.4.Local practice -- 8.5.Question boundaries -- 8.6.Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A Complete data sets from Chapter 1 -- LAMSAS responses for àndirons' -- Scattered distribution of dogs responses -- Scattered distribution of firedogs responses -- Appendix B Complete data sets from Chapter 3 -- The top 50 words that start with <k> from Shakespeare's writing -- Shakespeare's A-curve -- LAMSAS responses to the sòfa' question -- Responses from picture-elicitation survey -- ̀Dresser' image from picture-elicitation survey -- ̀Chest on chest' image from picture-elicitation survey -- Ẁardrobe' image from picture-elicitation survey -- ̀Dresser with mirror' image from picture-elicitation survey

Note continued: LAMSAS responses to prompt for Ì don't care for any' -- Appendix C Complete data set from Chapter 4 -- Complete list of names given for ceramic vessels -- A-curve for ceramic vessel names -- Appendix D Complete data sets from Chapter 5 -- Complete list of LAMSAS responses to ̀pantry' question -- LAMSAS ̀pantry' A-curve -- Appendix E Complete data sets from Chapter 6 -- Colonial Massachusetts inventory corpora -- Plymouth inventories -- Suffolk County inventories -- Complete list of Mid-Essex room designations 1635 -- 1749 -- Appendix F Complete data sets from Chapter 7 -- List of HABS houses used -- Complete list of HABS first-floor room names -- HABS first-floor rooms A-curve.

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