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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.

Spradley's Types of Relationships for Domain Analysis

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)

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Thanks so much for leaving this comment. I suspected that psychologists or anthropologists might have something to say about this. Do you know anyone actively working in this area who might be interested?