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 co... (read more)
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 co... (read more)