ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Critical Discourse Analysis, Tag Question, Sociolinguistics
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Perspective which says that people"s language affects how they think. If a language has many words for snow for example, then someone who speaks that language can think about snow in more ways than someone whose language has fewer snow terms. Theory stating that language determines consciousness of the world and behaviour. Perspective that emphasizes how people"s cultural and social context shapes their language and its meanings. Language shapes culture and cultural context shapes language. Refers to culturally patterned verbal language use including varieties of speech, participation and meaning. An approach within linguistic anthro that examines how power and social inequality are reflected in and reproduced through verbal language. Reveals links between language and social inequality, power and stigma. Gender in euro-american conversations resistance through language. Most languages contain gender differences in word choice, grammar, intonation, content, style. Rising intonation at the end of sentences.
