ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Linguistic Relativity

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac

Document Summary

Words contraction different not the word itself. Word for seal has even more words. Caught attention of one of his students. Seal floating on a piece of ice. First to expert in native american language. Developed first handbook for north american language. Whorf was able to compare north american language. Linguistic relatively: many explanatons cant be translated, example: hopi (plural of dog lunatism, example: open empty barrels worse than close full barrels. Language models the physical, social and supernatural. Theory argues, language structures human thought, the structure of a language very much influences the way people think, jist of linguistic relativity. Zapotec who are an indigenous people of southern mexico, human body is their metaphorical extension e. g. lid referred to as head. Paiute geographic terms (sapir) sapir did work with the paiute: People of great basin (dry forbidding season) Day time its hot, night time is cold, people lived there called paiute,