Kenneth L. Pike (1912–2000)

Talk, Thought, and Thing
The Emic Road Toward Conscious Knowledge

Preface
Chapter 1
Personal interaction in a social-physical context is a useful entrance point into theory about cross-cultural knowledge
Chapter 2
The person, as observer, is tied emically to things (and concepts) via differences, sameness, and appropriateness
Chapter 3
The person may react to three kinds of hierarchical structures—phonological, grammatical, and referential—each with its features of slot, class, role, and cohesion
Chapter 4
A person chooses temporary perspectives via particle, wave, and field, as a crucial part of the ability of the self
Chapter 5
A personal search for knowledge involves the search for patterns within patterns in a holistic context
Chapter 6
A person may distort innate positive universals into negative particular action
Conclusion
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