ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Linguistic Anthropology, Knitting, Keith H. Basso
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Language happens in context but also in action. Language as a warehouse of vocabulary items, a source of comparison with others. Ferdinand de saussure said that language is like chess, its an arrangement of symbolic objects that only mean something in terms of what they do. He made a distinction between langue & parole language & speech. He said that language is 2 systems and speech is the stuff that people develop out there in the world. Now you figure out what goes in the blank, which has to be a verb so the sentence makes sense. If this is true about the world, then if i wanted to know a culture, i"d need to know about language since people believed that there was an easy relationship between language and culture. People believed that if they learned their native language, they"d get all the culture. He said that language and speech are 2 different things.
