ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Indirect Speech, Eurocentrism, Proxemics
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"linguistic determinism. " language determines thought and worldview. ex) does someone not see color if they do not have a word for it. "linguistic relativity. " language influences thought but does not determine thought. ex) spanish gendered nouns and articles. Discourse analysis study of language above the level of sentence. Report (men) - speech pattern to report facts. Rapport (women) - speech pattern to build relationships. Deborah tannen language and gender; came up with report vs rapport. Boys: large, heterogeneous groups. values: competition and dominance speech: aggressiveness challenges evolves: posturing, arguing, storytelling. Girls: small, homogeneous groups. values: equality, interpretation, critique speech: secrets evolves: engagement, indirect speech (request) Indirect speech, also known as indirect discourse or indirect style, is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech. Co-pilot was more experienced but used indirect speech on the less experienced pilot when issues arose, later caused a crash.
