COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Todd Gitlin, George Herbert Mead, North Germanic Languages
9 Dec 2015
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Quiz answers: acording to lakoff & johnson, conceptual metaphors a, the concept of arguing is understood by analogy with war, guugu yimithirr is an example of a language with _____ directions b. The nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. This is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible. They live, but we cannot guess what purposes or causes make them act. They might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it. People who speak different languages have a very different experience of the world.
