ANTH 204 Lecture : ANTH 204 NOTES.docx
9 Jun 2014
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Bilingualism: weak: language influential, strong: language directive. Lexical classifications: some domains of vocabulary are clear; other are not. Assumptions based on perceived characteristics and associations (whales, tomatoes, etc. ) Hedges useful for uncertain categories: strictly speaking, loosely speaking (only used when meanings are debatable of contextually sensitive: animate and inanimate objects, ex: personhood not limited to humans (objibwa) teosinthe, classification in empirical terms. Is there agreement across cultures: prototypes: most typical example within a category, an idealization. (vs. non- prototypical/atypical) Doesn"t really mean how are you?: using language symbolically: advertising (new, improved, bigger, better: value of progress, modernity) Language and cultural meaning (bonvillan 2004: languages transmit and reiterate cultural models by, transmitting semantic domains and principles of classification, expressing focal meanings and prototypes, defining words and categories using metaphor and symbolism. Structural metaphors (lakoff & johnson 1980: metaphor: a figure of speech by which a word is transferred from one object to another, implying comparison.
