ANT100Y1 Lecture 2: Linguistics 2
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"white entitlement": subtle and systemic discrimination: also structural, for jobs, systemic discrimination is more likely without a network. If the network is mostly white, it is more successful than a network that is mostly black: systemic: Is societal, not just personal: not about whether one is a racist or not. Homo sapiens: humans that know: knowing: making sense, to make sense means to signify, study of signs (signifying): semiotics, study of language as a human property: linguistics, linguistics is part of semiotics. Anthropological linguistics and semiotics: how signifying (through language and other signs) is part of life in human society. A classic "saussurean" view of signification: signifier: the form of the sign; word, sound, smell, signified: what the sign refers to. Sign, signifier, signified: signifier + signified = sign. Important in semiotics as you must have the signified with the signifier to interpret the sign.
