ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grammar, Determinism, Standard Average European
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Arbitrariness: there is no inherent connection between the word and it"s meaning: sassoon: Arbitrariness: no natural connection between it"s sign and it"s significance. There is no clear-cut definition of time, how we divide time is arbitrary . Tartle: to hesitantly introduce someone because you forget your name. Cafune: the act of tenderly running one"s fingers through someone"s hair. Language that reflects social culture, reflects how the world is. Sapir-whorf hypothesis : languages are not just different sets of labels for the same reality, all language structure thought and perception, people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language. Comparison: standard average european languages vs the hopi language, time, real plurals and imaginary plurals. Hopi language: using examples of nouns and plurals, they don"t have imaginary nouns. Instead of ten days from now , they say on the 11th day .
