LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grapheme, Electrical Network, Linguistic Determinism
21 Apr 2017
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Structure of language that determines how you think of something, A. world consists of a jumble of phenomena; community agrees certain things go together & gives them names: cultures take what is fitting to them, example, starbucks needs new name for drink. B. how we group & label things determines how we think about them = linguistic determinism. If culture believes that there is only male of female, they"ll only adopt those concepts. Inuit language has many words for snow; english language has few. Inuit language has many words for snow, whereas english people have very few words for snow. A(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to harley, (cid:449)hat are the 2 key pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:449)ith whorf"s argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Colour perception: different languages categorize & label colour differently. Dani: only 2 colour terms (light & dark: a study of colour: (heider & oliver, 1972): Group 1: english (lots of colour terms) Group 2: dani (mola = light & mili = dark)
