Fascinating! The noken definition themes remind me of the ethnographer James Spradley’s method of domain analysis[1] for categorizing cultural knowledge. An ethnographer elicits a list of terms, actions, and beliefs from members of a particular cultural group and maps their relations in terms of shared or contrasting features as well as hierarchy.
For example, a domain analysis of medical residents working in an ER might include the slang term “gomer,”[2] to refer pejoratively to a patient who is down and out and admitted to the hospital with untreatable conditions.[3]
Thanks so much for leaving this comment. I suspected that psychologists or anthropologists might have something to say about this. Do you know anyone actively working in this area who might be interested?
Fascinating! The noken definition themes remind me of the ethnographer James Spradley’s method of domain analysis[1] for categorizing cultural knowledge. An ethnographer elicits a list of terms, actions, and beliefs from members of a particular cultural group and maps their relations in terms of shared or contrasting features as well as hierarchy.
For example, a domain analysis of medical residents working in an ER might include the slang term “gomer,”[2] to refer pejoratively to a patient who is down and out and admitted to the hospital with untreatable conditions.[3]
The Ethnographic Interview by James P. Spradley.
e.g., “Get out of my emergency room”
BMJ article on the usage of the term ‘gomer’
Thanks so much for leaving this comment. I suspected that psychologists or anthropologists might have something to say about this. Do you know anyone actively working in this area who might be interested?