ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Linguistic Determinism, Sociolinguistics, Marcel Danesi
19 Jul 2016
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Linguistics: describing languages and how they work o. Formal properties of specific languages and of all languages. The focus is still on description of how languages work, the formal properties: within social settings o o. The relationship between how people talk and their social class. Linguistic anthropology: how language and culture are associated, methodological focus is ethnography o o. Through participation, ethnographic, how language tells us about culture. Associated with anthropology, indigenous people and their languages. Simpler cultures (technology) do not have simple languages. All languages are equally able to provide speakers with a means of communication. A system of arbitrary vocal/signed symbols that allows for communication o o. Languages are made up of discrete sets of sounds or signs. (2) arbitrary and symbolic: no necessary natural connection between a sound or sign and what it sounds for. But when a sound is combined with an image in your brain meaning is produced.
