ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sarah Palin, Intentionality, Joint Attention
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Anthropology: study of humans, builds on knowledge from social and bio science. Linguistic: role language plays in human social life. Language = signs/symbols: sign: whatever stands to somebody for something else in some respect/capacity, charles sanders pierce. People have to ability to recognize and produce non-natural signs: ex: smoke is a sign of re (natural meaning, humans: non-natural, image: non-natural. Language uses signs as communication (winking: wink is human quirk not animals (who have no language, human vs animal: intention, wink: addressed to someone, deliberate, @ someone, deliver message, w/o cognizance of rest of company. Socially established code: geertz, difference between wink & twitch. If winking is intentional it can develop into a bigge r thing. Ex: sara palin -- sign of character: non-intentional actions are performed under voluntary control but w/o communicative intent, blink, eye twitch, sweat, etc. Sunday, november 26, 2017: humans: master of intention reading. They can manipulate another"s capacity to read intention: sport players (basketball)
