[a] whether or not such cultural concepts exist in addition to, or in. contradistinction to, the grammatico-semantic and grammatico-pragmatic

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5 Whorf s lines of investigating specifically cultural [= socio-historically emergent] concepts: [a] whether or not such cultural concepts exist in addition to, or in contradistinction to, the grammatico-semantic and grammatico-pragmatic categories through which we calibrate linguistic structures? [b] if they exist as a distinct realm of default cognition effective as people conceptualize or model and rationally act in the universe, where do they come from? [c] what, in particular, might be the role of denotational structure or the partial and phenotypically biased reflexive understanding of denotational structure in the coming-into-being and growth of cultural conceptualizations?

6 Whorf posed specifically a model of the space of agentive social consciousness subjectivity in essence where there is a dialectical coming together of [1] the native language user s misrecognition of a demonstrably unconscious or tacit language structure with [2] the misrecognition of empirical reality that emerges in-and-by the conventional use of language itself to denote (refer-to and predicate-about) that empirical reality through the clunky digital (not analog) syntax and morphology that concatenates intensional prototypes as category- or extensionalizable concept-anchors.

7 [[[spin-] Vtr +p.p.] [lime+[stone-] N ] N ] N i.e., a taxonomically specific kind of stone, treated in some way

8 Analogic relationships [a] In entextualizations, both denotational and interactional: spring : summer : autumn : winter :: green : red : yellow : blue Initiator : Respondent :: lower : higher :: griot : noble :: active : passive :: wind : stone [b] In Saussurean planes of semiotic structure, paradigmatic proportionality: II: regular and productive proportions of differential signifier (form) and differential signified (meaning); (all grammars leak) I: simultaneously operative distinctive-feature dimensions of proportionality of phonological segments; III: simultaneously cued grammatical-categorial dimensions of proportionality of meaning differences

9 [c] In the surface (lexically expressed) forms of denotational code, a force of attraction of one form by another: historically, reshaping of forms in the image of others (generally, irregular forms becoming more regular ) English plurals: brother : brethr-en > brother : brother-s [brethr-en becoming a meaning-narrowed form]; syllabus- + Pl > syllab-i [cf. alumn(-)us : alumn(-)i] in the language community, imposing the form meaning relationship of one surface form on another Folk etymologies, e.g., sparrow-grass (asparagus), Welsh rarebit (Welsh rabbit)

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12 The degree of abstractness of concept-generating social practice: [a] directly physical expression in a unitary code-form [clock- time ] [b] phenomenally unitary site of entextualization [the colors of the seasons; the aesthetic dimensions of wine], or [c] meta-level constructivity [Thai edibility concepts]

13 Mapping (Projecting) Denotational Entextualization into Interactional Entextualization the connection between denotational entextualization conveying information and interactional entextualization co-constructing a consequential social event is mediated not merely by grammaticosemantic and grammatico-pragmatic machinery but rather by cultural conceptualization, -onomic knowledge (that can be created on-the-spot, to be sure!) that locates those who invoke it in particular social locations (categories of identity) in communities of practice.

14 Q A8 An you [B] wént to undergraduate [school] hére ór R B8 [ ] in Chicago át, uh, Loyola ÓhÓhÓhÓhÓh! I [A] m an óld Jesuit boy myself [A], unfortunately R A1 [ ] Georgetown, down in Washington Oh áre ya [A]? Ó:h yéah, yeah Q B1 Where d you [A] gó?

15 Key of Jesuit Institutions of Higher Education Jesuit_Colleges_and_Universities (28) Georgetown > Fordham > Boston C > Gonzaga > Loyola > of Chicago [Mr A] [Mr B] i.e., TAXONOMY x HIERARCHY (SERIATION)

16 University of Chicago Partonomy of Post-baccalaureate Organizational Units Divisions and Schools of the University Divisions Graduate > Law > Medical > School of > School of School School Social Service Business Administration [Mr A] [Mr B] i.e., PARTONOMY x HIERARCHY (SERIATION)

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19 The Eucharistic Quality of Qualia-fication Christian Eucharist Dialectic of Indexical Orders [1] A s act of incorporating Host [2] A s countervailing being incorporated into the corporate body of Christ [1] A indexes some condition of context with an indexical sign-vehicle as interpretable within a schema of enregisterment [2] A is indexically identified by performing [1] (as made relevant by the interpretable register)

20 Putnam s sociolinguistic division of denotational labor: the fact that communities of metapragmatic discursive practice exist where words and expressions are used in certain enregistered ways in producing genred texts-in-contexts by identifiable social kinds of speakers/addressees authorized so to do. Every successful event of literally referring or predicating rests not only on their being a universe of possible referents, as the positivists think, but on a socio-culturally constituted community of referrers/predicators and those referred-to/predicated-to. It s socio-cultural reality all the way down, in which, as you can see, grammar is the mechanism for supplying default, asymptotically decontextualized voice-from-nowhere-in-the-community stereotypy, a.k.a. differential intensional prototypes after all the other kinds of intensional prototypy a.k.a. sociolinguistically locatable stereotypy does its work.

21 The doctrine of literal denotation is essentially an appeal to a socially un-locatable authoritative baptism of an extension-asprototype and numerous other denotata related to that prototype intensionalized along many different axes of likeness. In relation to a prototype exemplar at the extensional plane the lower edge of the Lockean rectangle, here! the key issue is how this exemplar is intensionalized ascribed properties on some basis or other such that it differentially anchors or differentially belongs to a class or category of denotata anchored by an intensional prototype (set of values in a multidimensional qualityspace).