CULTURAL COGNITION

CULTURAL COGNITION

Author:  Leonard Talmy

Affiliation:  University at Buffalo

Abstract:  The article considers specifics of cultural cognition in the process of knowledge assessment by an individual. Types of accommodation to cultural schemas are pointed out and aspects of universality and variation in behavior schemas are defined.

Keywords:  cultural cognition, universality, variation, meta-schema, metaknowledge.

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Pages:  647-657