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For 'memes', prior credit to Kenneth Pike.
gene o'regon (gene@SQN.COM)
Tue, 8 Oct 1996 00:37:51 -0500
Dear Sheldon,
Thank you for the reference to Kenneth Pike. Certain disciplines
seem averse to crediting prior work, but I never realized that anthropology
was one of those.
Gene
>Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:09:52 -0500
>From: Sheldon Klein <sklein@CS.WISC.EDU>
>Subject: For 'memes', prior credit to Kenneth Pike.
>
>If one is really fond of the 'meme' concept, be aware that Kenneth Pike
>deserves prior credit, both in time and for rigor [his term was 'behavioreme',
>a unit that was defined in terms of some kind of verifiable discovery
>method based on the extension of the -etic/emic units in the Linguistics
>of the day, (Pike's variant of Linguistics)].
>
>
> AUTHOR Pike, Kenneth Lee, 1912-
> TITLE Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human
> behavior, by Kenneth L. Pike. -- Preliminary ed. -- Glendale,
> Calif., Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1954-
> (AQX1037)
> AUTHOR Pike, Kenneth Lee, 1912-
> TITLE Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human
> behavior, by Kenneth L. Pike. -- 2d, rev. ed. -- The Hague,
> Mouton, 1967.
> (ALC2241)
>
>Sheldon Klein
>sklein@cs.wisc.edu
>
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