ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Yeti, Jacques Lacan
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Whorf hypothesis: how different languages construct different realities. Reality = construct - reality and the real . Lacan"s stages of development: the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. I. e. remote/clicker = sign for the class (alternatives, context, meaning) Everything is a sign and stands for something. Connotation: what else is meant; not shared by everyone. I. e. trump"s chair (denotation = chair); (connotation: arrogance) Connotations = powerful; not easily open to argument and/or analysis. I. e. yeti = signified (something that doesn"t exist); picture of yeti = signifier. Some signified = real but others are not (irony, lies, fantasy, plans) Making up things = act of signifying - using signs. Signs reflect but also make our world. Construct = formed by people in society; nurture not nature. World as it makes sense to us. Most of reality comes across to us through the filter of signs and language.
