LLCU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Cabrito, Franz Boas

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Course: LLCU 110
• Professor: Bronwyn Bjorkman

Document Summary

As the goat goes, so goes the kid (kid=juvenile goat: demonstrates the romance language continuum - small differences between each but each end is unrecognizable to the other. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. : 207: speaking a similar or even the same language does not necessarily mean sharing a culture, benjamin lee whorf: proposed strong linguistic relativism. Language determines thought and culture: struck by example of hopi (uto-aztecan) --> suggested that because hopi doesn"t express tense, hopi speakers experience time differently than speakers of european languages do, disputed strongly by many. Language families of canada: algonquian, athabaskan, ekimo-aleut, iroqoian, salishan, siouan, tsimshiam, and. Wakashan: also - haida, ktunaxa (kutenai), and tlingit which are language isolates, many of the language families of british colombia are spoken by very few people and are endangered, http://maps. fphlcc. ca/