ANTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Jargon, Post-Structuralism, Arbitrariness
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We often use stuff that we experienced somewhere but there are things that comes from inside such as emotions and feelings. If anit patel was in delhi then it wouldn"t sound cultural name because he"ll be staying within his culture and it would be very common. Gestures, facial expressions and something about the way we talk is important to the social identities. Different way to think about social identities something about the way the language works [very differently] which enables us to determine the ethnic and racial sort of stuff. All have these ideas about how language works but they don"t really describe reality well. Language ideology- its not about race but its about correctness of the way you speak. In certain kind of context, you would talk orally or formally which is where the institutional power comes from very difficult. All of these examples explain that it"s a difficult phenomena and change the question to how does language work.
