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Language and Culture Areas: A Note on Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William E. Bittle
William E. Bittle*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The University of Oklahoma
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1. The Problem. The purpose of this paper is twofold. One aim is to examine briefly the criteria basic to the notions of the culture area and the language area; the second is to indicate a method which would allow for the construction of systems which could profitably be compared and held correlate in any problem involving, on the historical level, the development and diffusion of cultural and linguistic patterns, and, on the synchronic level, the precise nature of that complex of human behavior patterns, linguistic and non-linguistic, which is characteristic of man in society.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1953 , pp. 247 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © 1953, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to the Rockefeller Foundation's Interdepartmental Study on Language and Symbolism, University of Michigan, for the time made available to me for the preparation of this paper.

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