ANTHR208 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Linguistic Relativity, Linguistic Anthropology, Edward Sapir
20 Nov 2018
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Cultural vs biological: walking can be cultural, despite what sapir said about walking being biological and instinctive and contrasting it with language, seen as a major milestone in childhood development (western cultures) In some cultures, people will walk in close groups, bumping into each other, holding hands - maori, new zealand: walking can portray confidence and authority, or shyness and uncertainty. Seemingly natural things are very often cultural and not natural at all. Signs, semiotics, and indexicality: metalanguage - language about language. Signs: as a sign stands for one thing, the meaning may vary between speaker and interpreter. An overlap of understanding is necessary for communication: sign meanings are always both connotational and denotational. Firstness: peirce wrote back and forth to lady victoria welby, he talked about the feeling of firstness - the first reaction to a previously unencountered thing. Figuring out the relationship of the senses to understanding. Everett; to prevent intrusions and keep the place secret: pirah people.
