Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence

Cambridge University Press, 3/23/1995
EAN 9780521453295, ISBN10: 0521453291

Hardcover, 324 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social interdependence. The unique development of human intelligence was probably linked to the use of spoken language, but language itself evolved in the context of social interaction, and in its development it has shaped - and been shaped by - social institutions. Taking as their starting-point the social production of intelligence and of language, scholars across a range of disciplines are beginning to rethink fundamental questions about human evolution, language and social institutions. This volume brings together anthropologists, linguists, primatologists and psychologists, all working on this new frontier of research.

Introduction Esther N. Goody
Part I. Primary Processes
l. The ape legacy Richard W. Byrne
2. How to invent a shared lexicon Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst
3. Kinship organization Nurit Bird-David
Part II. The Interactive Negotiation of Meaning in Conversation
4. On projection Jurgen Streeck
5. Interaction sequences and anticipatory interactive planning Paul Drew
6. Where does foresight end and hindsight begin? David Good
Part III. Genres as Tools that Shape Interaction
7. Politeness strategies and the attribution of intentions Penelope Brown
8. Interaction planning and intersubjective adjustment of perspectives by communicative genres Thomas Luckmann
Part IV. Expressions of a Social Bias in Intelligence
9. Divination as dialogue David Zeitlyn
l0. Social intelligence and prayer as dialogue Esther N. Goody
11. Interactional biases in human thinking Stephen C. Levinson
12. Stories in the social and mental life of people Michael Carrithers.