ANTH 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moe Williams, Linguistic Determinism, Calendar
9 May 2020
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Speakers group cardboard items together: english, grammar stresses shape, different words for wood, tree, table, speakers group boxes together, evidence for linguistic determinism, relative v. absolute space. Relative: uphill/downhill (dietic: experiencing linguistic determinism, temporary transfer. Language, culture, & thought: categories and metaphors, looting v. finding. English: time = matter, units of time = objects, passage of time = endless line of identical objects. Hopi: time = process, units of time = cycles, passage of time = endless repetition of same cycle. Metonymy: the word employed is linked to the concept you are really talking about, but isn"t actually part of it: ex. Frame: a system of expectations which influences experience: founding fathers v. mothers, tax relief v. community support, looting v. finding, quiz v. assessment, date v. hookup, gay marriage v. same-sex marriage. Coping with differences: if translation requires completely identical meaning, usually not possible, language system will shape perception, always in a system but not trapped in a system.
