ANT100Y1 Lecture : Lingusitics Day Four
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Language, and signifying behavior in general, limits what we can say, think, and do. Often below the level of our consciousness. And can be hegemonic makes people willingly obey. + languages, dialects, language ideologies (ideas that influence what people think of language_ + social variation: accents, sociolects, registers (variety of language that depends on formality) Language, dialect, and accent popular, not scientific terms. Languages: danish, norwegian, russian, ukrainian ;; malaysian, indonesian;; serbian, croatian. Dialects : cantonese, fukinese, mandarin (all chinese) no state. + not language cause under same nation;; same ideologies, etc politics influenced. Languages : serbian, croatian ;; hindi, urdu languages with a religion (and script) Language ideology what is a language and what"s in a specific area. Objective reasons: critical periods for learning distant languages. Subjective reasons: foreign accents depends on both production and reception of speech: how people speak and how we hear them. Accents index involuntary ethnic divisions in our community.
