ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Reproduction, Semiotics, Ingroups And Outgroups
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However, our understanding of culture use may be completely different: youtube video: welcome to tenran: iranian politeness. In this culture, it is polite to say no when someone offers you something, and then proceed to say yes . If you say yes right away, you are perceived to be greedy. In toronto, someone may know language of english, but might not necessarily understand culture, and therefore may appear to be rude: try this at home! (distance, pauzes, greetings) Our toolkit key terms in ling anth: multi-functionality, language ideologies. Six features of a speech event: context, addresser/speaker, addressee, contact, code, message, addresser is sharing a message with addressee. Phatic (contact: oriented towards the channel that carries it, social or physical, primarily focused on securing connection, ex: testing, 1, 2, 3 (physical). Hello? (on phone: physical and social: metalinguistic (code, utterance focused upon the code or language, language about language. ^ information about the language: includes comments about language use (metapragmatics)
