ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Roman Jakobson, Language Ideology
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We also, have to bring the social aspect: roman jakobson, suggested that there are 4 key notions: Four key concepts in linguistic anthropology: multifunctionality: language is social. We need to look at speech event (addresser, addresse, code, message, context, contax). He also suggested functions are important as well (cognative, expressive, metalinguistic, phatic, referential, poetie). These 6 elements determine function of speech event. 2: language ideologies: if you want to understand social context, we need to understand language ideologies, practice: we have to understand structure, but through practice. We can change structure (i. e. , english today is not the same as the english spoken years ago). You are what you speak: die grenzen meiner sprache bedeuten die grenzen meiner welt. : the limits of my language are the limits of my world. wittgenstein: : a new language is a new life. persian proverb.
