Full Description
The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture.
Contents
Part IV: An ethnographic theory of language and some practical corollaries; Div. I. Language as tool, document and cultural reality; Div. II. The translation of untranslatable words; Div. III. The context of words and the context of facts; Div. IV. The pragmatic setting of utterances; Div. V. Meaning as function of words; Div. VI. The sources of meaning in the speech of infants; Div. VII. Gaps, gluts and vagaries of a native terminology; Part V: Corpus inscriptionum agriculturae quiriviniensis; or the language of gardens; Division I Land and gardens; Division II The crops; Division III The crops: staple produce of the gardens; Division IV The crops: trees and plants of the village grove; Division v the social and cultural setting of trobriand agriculture; Division VI The technique and outfit of agriculture; Division VII Magic; Division VIII Inaugurative magical ceremonies; Division IX Magic of growth; Division X The magic of harvest and of plenty; Division XI A Few texts relating to garden magic; Division XII The terminology of the legal and economic aspects of gardening; Part VI: An ethnographic theory of the magical word; Div. I. The meaning of meaningless words; Div. II. Coefficient of weirdness in the language of magic; Div. III. Digression on the theory of magical language; Div. IV. Coefficient of intelligibility; Div. V. Digression on the general theory of magical language; Div. VI. The sociological function of magic as another source of intelligibility of spells; Part VII: Magical formulae
