ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Japanese Honorifics, Onomatopoeia, Racialization
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Hopi-concepion of ime as processes, not discrete units (hopi would not divide ime into seconds or hours and would not perceive ime as an object so one cannot waste ime ) Linguisic determinism-theory staing that language determines consciousness of the world and behavior. If diferent languages inluence our minds in diferent ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about. -deutscher. Other languages use gender nouns although english does not use them. Rare language where the object-noun phrase comes before the subject: instead of i see you it"s you see i . You are responsible to your whole people, and that"s relected in the language. Supreme court case snyder vs. phelps (pickeing at funerals of dead soliders) Instead of describing linguisic rules that generate meaningful sentences, we ought to discover the sociolinguisic rules that generate appropriate uterances.
