SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Geoffrey Chaucer, Language Change, Eurocentrism
9 Apr 2017
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Week 12 language, literacy, and communication technologies. Sapir-whorf hypothesis (cid:498)the worlds in which different societies live are different worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached(cid:499) Wine-tasting: as you grow, your taste changes, culture changes as language change. Delaney suggests that since the 1920s, turkish has changed as much as from chaucer (english) to today. Chinese often much farther back in time. Through sound recordings, can link people over time. Writing: each act of writing and reading is connected to a world. Eurocentrism focus on europe to the exclusion of other places. Writing wants invented independently in at least three places. May have also been invented in egypt and indus. Debates about the origin of writing and what counts. But neither printing nor movable type was actually invented by johannes gutenbery, nor did he print the first book. The chinese actually printed with movable type 1040, but later discarded the method.
