Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership: a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz Eigentum

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

ok > 2 that Possession, Assertion and Territoriality were the most highly valued of the criteria, if the acquisition criteria were discounted. The concern is why means of acquisition are so highly valued when explicit judgements about ownership are involved but not with implicit judgements. By way of speculation, it may be that explicit judgements are concerned with disputed claims of ownership, whereas with the implicit tasks used here, no ownership disputes were introduced. Roth & Shoben (1983) have shown that context has a marked effect on semantic structure. The explicit Judgeneals may be reflecting concerns with the quality of evidence in the context of an ownership dispute. Means of acquisition are concerned with past situations, historical events which can be disputed via records and witnesses. Criteria involving present situations, such as Possession and Territoriality, cannot be readily disputed. An object is possessed or it is not. So when ownership disputes do arise, one party or the other will place the point of dispute in the past, where the issue will be the legitimacy of the means of acquisition of the object. By this line of reasoning, Possession would be the root criterion of ownership. Means of Acquisition are valued because disputes concerning possession must be transformed to the past to disputes concerning the origins of possession.

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