ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Locutionary Act, Factual Relativism, Symbolic Capital
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Form of symbolic capital, cultural capital (educational status) Individual and gender repertoires (varying between men and women) Bring about a state of affairs in the world. Illocutionary statements, referentiary (v. locutionary: statement that cannot proved true or false, refers to something in the world, social acts. A)surface structures, deep structures, universal and biologically based (chomsky) Sapir whorf hypothesis: language shapes how we perceive the world. Strong form: linguistic determinism, speakers of different languages experience different realities (whorf: not credible. Weak form: language directs attention to some perceptions rather than to others, shapes experience: similar to native speaker"s categorization of sounds as phonemes (sapir, credible. Imaginary space: behind, ahead, of speaker in present. Events that exist or existed: indisputable, witnessed (english past and present) Events not manifest, are disputable, no eye witness (english future, also mythical past, imaginary, conditional, hypothetical, dreams, wishes)
