ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Jargon
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Signs reflect, but also make our world. Construct: formed by people in society, nurture not nature. In ordinary language: reality is what is real. In social science/ humanities, jargon: reality is how we understand the real. For the most part, reality seems pretty real and we are well advised to live in it! But a lot of the real is not our reality: we do not understand it. Different animals see the same scene in different ways (example; rats with two le(cid:374)ses, (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t see red, blurry visions) Their eyes construct the image of the scene they see.
