Alessandro Duranti

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The standard components of theory of mind—beliefs, desires, and goals—capture only a small part of this continuum. Searle's (1983) attempt to reduce all points on the continuum to the fundamental Intentional states of belief and desire seems less than satisfying…When we understand another person's actions, or grasp the meaning of their words, we are paying attention to one part or another of this continuum, "seeing as" in ways that have been shaped by the culture in which we live. [10]

In her review of the book, the anthropologist and linguist Jane H. Hill writes that "Duranti aims here to move away from homogeneous characterizations of whole cultures as inattentive or attentive to mens rea toward richer and more deeply contextualized accounts of exactly when, by whom, and how such attention is given or withheld." [11] Duranti's book is the subject of a 2017 Book Symposium in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, [12] which includes response from Eve Danziger, Shaun Gallagher and the authors of the other featured book, The Concept of Action, [13] N.J Enfield and Jack Sidnell.

Combining his interest in intentionality, intersubjectivity, and improvisation, Duranti has been more recently writing about cooperation and the conditions that trigger what he calls “interactional glitches,” involuntary missteps that interfere with the smooth completion of a joint task. [14]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Professor Alessandro Duranti". www.sscnet.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on December 12, 2012. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  2. "A new dean in the College". dailybruin.com.
  3. Duranti, Alessandro; Ochs, Elinor (1979). "Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation" (PDF). Syntax and Semantics. 12: 377–416. ISBN   978-0-12-613512-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2010.
  4. Duranti, Alessandro; Ochs, Elinor (1997). "Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family" (PDF). Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition: 169–202. ISBN   9783642083372.
    Duranti, Alessandro; Ochs, Elinor; Ta’ase, Elia K. (2004). "Change and Tradition in Literacy Instruction in a Samoan American Community". Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings, Grandparents, Peers and Communities: 159–170. ISBN   9780203521533.
    Duranti, Alessandro; Reynolds, Jennifer F. (2000). "Phonological and Cultural Change among Samoans in Southern California" . Cadernos de Sociolingüistica. 1 (1): 233–252. doi:10.1558/sols.v1.i1.59.
  5. Duranti, Alessandro (2003). "The Voice of the Audience in Contemporary American Political Discourse". Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: 114–136. ISBN   9780878409044.
    Duranti, Alessandro (2006). "Narrating the Political Self in a Campaign for the U.S. Congress". Language in Society. 35 (4): 467–497. doi:10.1017/S0047404506060222.
  6. Duranti, Alessandro; Burrell, Kenny (2004). "Jazz Improvisation: A Search for Hidden Harmonies and a Unique Self" (PDF). Ricerche di Psicologia. 27 (3): 71–101.
    Duranti, Alessandro (2009). "L'oralité avec impertinence : Ambivalence par rapport à l'écrit chez les orateurs samoans et les musiciens de jazz américaines" (PDF). L'Homme. 189: 23–47. doi:10.4000/lhomme.21978.
    Duranti, Alessandro (2018). "Jazz pris pour cible et la politique de la reconnaissance artistique". Politique et music. pp. 211–234.
    Duranti, Alessandro; Burrell, Kenny; Flood, S. (2005). The Culture of Jazz Aesthetics. (A Television Series Available on DVD). Los Angeles, CA, UCLA Instructional Media Production.
  7. 1 2 Duranti, Alessandro (2015). The Anthropology of Intentions. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-02639-1.
  8. Duranti 2015, p. 16.
  9. Duranti 2015, p. 290.
  10. Packer, Martin J. (2016-09-27). "Promises, Promises". Mind, Culture, and Activity. 24 (1): 81–84. doi:10.1080/10749039.2016.1232736. ISSN   1074-9039. S2CID   220378491.
  11. Hill, Jane H. (2016). "Alessandro Duranti, the anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. xii, 297. Pb $34.99". Language in Society. 45 (4): 609–612. doi:10.1017/S004740451600052X. S2CID   151565393.
  12. "The HAU App". www.haujournal.org. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  13. Enfield, N. J.; Sidnell, Jack (2017). The Concept of Action. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-89528-6.
  14. Duranti, Alessandro; Throop, Jason (2015). "Attention, Ritual Glitches, and Attentional Pull: The President and the Queen" (PDF). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 14 (4): 1055–1082. doi:10.1007/s11097-014-9397-4.
    Duranti, Alessandro (2022). "Interactional Glitches, Cooperation, and the Paradox of Public Joint Activities". Re-Creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination. Routlegde. pp. 71–92. doi:10.4324/9781003273615-8.
    Duranti, Alessandro; La Mattina, Nicco (2022). "The Semiotics of Cooperation". Annual Review of Anthropology. 51: 85–101. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-041420-103556.
    Duranti, Alessandro; Throop, Jason; McCoy, Matthew (2024). "Jazz Etiquette: Between Aesthetics and Ethics". The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Ethnomusicology. Oxford University Press. pp. 579–560. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693879.013.3.
  15. Duranti, Alessandro (1994-08-22). From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. ISBN   0-520-08385-7.
  16. Duranti, Alessandro (1997-09-04). Linguistic Anthropology. ISBN   0-521-44993-6.
  17. Duranti, Alessandro (2001-01-19). Key Terms in Language & Culture. ISBN   0-631-22666-4.
  18. Duranti, Alessandro (2001-02-22). Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader . ISBN   0-631-22111-5.
  19. Duranti, Alessandro (2005-12-23). A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. ISBN   1-4051-4430-0.
  20. Duranti, Alessandro (2009-05-04). Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. ISBN   978-1-4051-2632-8.
  21. Duranti, Alessandro; Ochs, Elinor; Schieffelin, Bambi B. (2011). The Handbook of Language Socialization. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-4443-4288-8.
Alessandro Duranti
Born (1950-09-17) September 17, 1950 (age 74) [1]
Rome, Italy
TitleDistinguished Professor of Anthropology
Awards John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Academic background
Education University of Rome "La Sapienza"
University of Southern California