ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Benjamin Lee Whorf, Linguistic Relativity, Zoological Society Of London
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Boas and native north american languages (his first fieldwork): Seal floating on a piece of ice. Edward sapir and benjamin lee whorf (whorf was not an anthropologist) but then whorf became a leading world expert in native american language. Sapir compared northern american languages which led to: linguistic relativity. Structure of language influences cognition, perception, action. Language models the physical, social and supernatural. Theory argues: in the process of socialization, a big part of that is learning how to classify and categorize the world. e. g looking at body parts, how you refer to an arm. One term that refers to upper part etc. Same parts apply to different animal and objects-metaphorical extension to objects. e. g the top of box,=head (top of body). The foot of the tree=all space that surrounds the tree. They also use these terms for time. e. g foot is the beginning of the store (the foot of the store)