Overview: Analyzes institutional domains through quantitative analyses of word meanings.Develops a model of how language, cultural meanings, self and identities, and roles are connected.Establishes that social Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After establishing a theoretical and a methodological framework for his empirical work, David
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