ANTB21H3 Lecture : week5 (b21).docx
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Referentialist language ideology (primary or sole function of language is somehow to describe the world that pre-exists. ) Language supplies us with words, phrases and sentences that come with forms filled with content (to match our ideas or intentions) Saussre s model of the sign form and concept. This referential content is supposedly what we are talking about (i. e. what we can make most explicit) In austin, the way constatives have meaning (also see ahearn and. Problems: not cross-culturally valid (not valid for western and other parts of the world, e. g. much weaker sense that words can be separated and talked about as having meaning outside context. notion of quoting a word without using it is much less defined. e. g. baba term of address; when asked what baba is - used baba in a sentence not defining it. (by an informant)
