ANTB21H3 Lecture : week4.docx

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Feb 28th no lecture but there is a tutorial with laura. Review referentialist ideology as part of a football metaphor of communication: been critiqued, has major assumption in scholarly study of language. Performativity notion that the use of language (re)creates social relations and worlds (the formal study of performativity is speech act theory) Speech act theory embedded many assumption about personhood: linguistic anthropological approaches (e. g. rosaldo s study about. Ilongot from the philippines: even in english speaking societies, speech act theory contained problems (e. g. i insult you the addressee is not really insulted) Many paradigmatic examples used in speech act theory were taken from highly-ritualized contexts. Magic vs science = primitive vs modern. you cant understand the bible in your own language. you need someone to interpret this (e. g. priest,etc) certain kinds of rituals produce the cosmos (understanding the relationship between parts of the world) by producing repetitive actions.

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