LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jargon, Igloo, Ethnic Group
11 Apr 2016
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Derived from greek word ethnos" meaning people". Ethnolinguistics seeks to understand: whether grammatical categories and structures affect speakers" world views, in uence, direct, and re ect people"s thoughts, the direct and indirect meanings of words. The two most in uential gures in the development of ethnolinguistics were edward. The sapir-whort hypothesis is broken down into two basic ideas, known as. Linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism: linguistic relativity champions the differences between languages, and claims that because of these differences each language is likely to categorize the world in a unique fashion. Each language has its own set of colour words or colour terms, and each language puts boundaries between colour categories in different places (the boundaries between colours are fuzzy). In hopi: one word for all non-bird ying-things and another one for birds: linguistic determinism champions the idea that language can determine how we think about the world.
