ANTB21H3 Lecture : Lecture 5
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Referential meaning/content working with the referential language ideology which is the idea that language describes the world as it is. Insufficient to describe how socio-cultural meaning is portrayed. To communicate with diving being you have to establish a distinction between earthly realm and other realm, and cross it. Bauman: language ideology: beliefs people have of what language should be/how it should be used. different value placed on different aspects of language of a particular time and particular space: how does religion communicate certain rules to communicate effectively, silence was used to listen to god s voice inside. disassociating from all the excess carnal speaking: constantly aware of how speech is used. 75 nationalism: indo-mauritian case, language becomes the focus of ethnonationalism and ancestral connections. Idea of modernity and pluralizing it: looked closely at local modernity, utterances were lies and not to be trusted.
