ANTH 217 Lecture 10: conclusions: language, power, and agency
Document Summary
Living language: an introduction to linguistic anthropology: 260-291. Hegemony refers to a dynamic system of domination based no so much on violence or threat of violence, or merely on the economic control of the means of production but rather political, cultural, and institutional influence/// a general predominance. Focused on power relations involving actions upon other"s action. Based off of governmentality- institutions, procedures and knowledge. Deeply involved in everyday social and linguistic interactions. Practice reflects and shapes social structures of power, in any social interaction. Predispositions/ habits are shaped by social structures, can shape and can be shaped by social structures. Can also be through everyday verbal and nonverbal interactions. Orthodoxy opinion in favour of the status quo and current alignments of power. Ex marriage was an orthodoxy- man and woman- and turned into a heterodoxy- same sex marriages. Ideologies that shape society- ex english ads the stand american language (dif levels of prestige)
