ANTH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abortion-Rights Movements, Anti-Abortion Movements, Implicature

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 104
• Professor: E Kramer

Document Summary

Language is a static tool for communicating ideas and describing the world. Languages change (grammatical rules, words, languages merge and deviate) The ways that people use language change. Macrocontextually: over long periods of time (over centuries) Microcontextually: from situation to situation (in classroom, to parents, to friends) Language is a part of the world. People talk about language (metalanguage) (what i mean by that wasdon"t say this ) People respond to past utterances and anticipate future utterances (professor modifies lesson for students to better understand) Shapes social relationships (i talk one way to friends and one way to strangers) Promotes and subverts cultural beliefs (argue, persuade, deceive, change people behavior, change people"s language use) The way you talk about things can shape the way you think about them (pro choice vs pro life) Referential meaning: what is literally said (it is cold in here)