TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Zinken, Jörg A1 - Costall, Alan T1 - Diversity and Invariance in Human Social Action. Karl Duncker's "Situational Meanings" and the Schema of Linguistic Relativism JF - Paradigmi N2 - Linguistic relativists have traditionally asked 'how language influences thought', but conversation analysts and anthropological linguists have moved the focus from thought to social action. We argue that 'social action' should in this context not become simply a new dependent variable, because the formulation 'does language influence action' suggests that social action would already be meaningfully constituted prior to its local (verbal and multi-modal) accomplishment. We draw on work by the gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker to show that close attention to action-in-a-situation helps us ground empirical work on cross-cultural diversity in an appreciation of the invariances that make culture-specific elements of practice meaningful. KW - Conversation Analysis KW - Invariance KW - Karl Duncker KW - Linguistic Relativity KW - Practice KW - Relativism KW - Konversationsanalyse KW - Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese KW - Kontrastive Pragmatik KW - Interaktion Y1 - 2019 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-96476 SN - 2035-357X SS - 2035-357X U6 - https://doi.org/10.30460/95140 DO - https://doi.org/10.30460/95140 VL - 37 IS - 3 SP - 491 EP - 506 PB - il Mulino CY - Bologna ER -