ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Michel Foucault
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Developed by linguist edward sapir and his student benjamin whorf; 1930s: language shapes our thought process. Linguistic determinism: the language humans speak determines the way they think about the world: the relationship between language and worldview is relative. Linguistic relativity: differences in human languages are reflected in the different worldviews of the people who speak those languages. How people understand and organize the material objects, events, and experiences that make up their world. To understand the way people organize the world, particularly in language. How a culture processes reality through their own native categories. Each culture orders events, material life and ideas by its own criteria. How people conceptualize disease in terms of symptoms, cause, and appropriate treatment. Mid 1980s; focused on acquisition of communication competency, particularly in area of socialization. What is being done with, around, and through talk to children.
