ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Word Taboo, Lexicalization, Performativity
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Avoidance: the idea that there are many things that we don"t come straight out and say. As interpreter of signs: sensitive to differences of wind direction. As producer of signs: conveys direction of wind at a given moment in time. As interpreter of signs: anything that is perceptible. In humans, it is a wide range whereas a weathervane would be limited. As producer of signs: gestures, gaze directions, language, etc. Some of those signs are voluntary and some of involuntary (sweating for example can be a sign that someone is nervous) Taboos often constrain the productive agency of person of signs: conveys direction of wind at a of signs: gestures, gaze directions, language, Acting in accordance to the taboo, an example would be that you can only use one out of five words. And the degree to which we control which words its composed of. Cases of taboos that act on the interpretive agency of people as well.
