ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Ideology, Speech Community, Colonisation Of Africa
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Nobody is anybody except in relation to somebody. If you meet a stranger, their behaviour is based on the type of person they are. Identity inheres in action, not in people (do+ing: language constitutes (rather than reflects) identity, it is not reflection of inherent quality, if i wanted to be identified as a scientist, i would change my vocabulary and practices. Identity is an achievement and not a fixed set of categories. Identity is a social phenomenon: ex: identifying as a musleum because it is something you practice everyday. Sameness and difference being a group: as we go through our daily life, we look for different elements that will allow us to imagine, this notion of sameness can lead to creating differences with someone else. Or which categories are more important than other: ex: colonial africa when colonizers went to africa, the goal was to find units to allow them to govern them.
