ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Phoneme, Linguistic Determinism, Hypercorrection
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Cultural anthropology: language and culture in society. His daughter allie: what is longer? a kilometer or an hour? : we measure and relate distance to time, hopi: horticulturalist , arigona. Orientated to process not space, action or event. David harrism: save languages sapir- wolf hypothesis, socio-linguistics. William labour there is a relationship between the way you speak and your social class: upper, middle or low. Hypothesis: the presence of a strongly pronounces /r/ (r phoneme) is related to social class in new york city. Specifically upper class (middle and lower class don"t) Middle class hyper-correct they do this because they want to be perceived that they are better then they are. Canadian speaking over all represents high class. Most tv stations in the states have canadian speakers because of the way we talk. Fourth floor (studied it in stores in new york city) Higher prices, hard to see ads in paper lower prices, price visible in ads.
