Lecture 4-5

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LinguisticLecture#4  Language,Culture,Society    Feb10th,2011

1. Outline

a. The“whorfhypothesis”–language,culture,thought

b. Languageassymptomofsocialconditions

c. Usinglanguageasapartoflivinginsociety

d. Socialidentityandlanguage

e. Hegemony(awayofdominatingpplsotheyconsenttotheirdomination)

Signifier–hellokittysandals

Signified–cuteness,feminist,girlish

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2. TheHelloKittyBurglar

a. MasakazuKandaissuspectedofinvolvementin452burglarycasesinvolvingatotalof55.5millionyen

b. Sandals:symbol,icon,indexofKanda

c. Significationalwaysdependsonthecontext

d. Languageisalwaysactualizedasabehavior,inalivingcontext

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3. TheWhorfHypothesis

a. BenjaminWhorf[1897–1941]

b. Emptyoildrumvs.usedoildrum

c. Strongwhorfhypothesis=languagesdeterminesthought

d. Weakwhorfhypothesis=languagesinfluencesthought

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4. Warning!

a. Linguisticrelativism

i. Donotexaggeratetheinfluenceoflanguage

b. J’aimelepoulet

i. Likeorlove

c. False:Frenchcan’sdifferentiatebetweenlikingfoodandlovingpeople

d. Spanish

i. Quierocomer–Iwanttoeat

ii. Tequiero–Iloveyou

iii. False:Desireandlove

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5. CulturalMeaning

a. Howeverlanguagedoesrelatetoculture–specifichabitsofthinking

b. Vocabulary/metaphor

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6. Vocabulary

a. Polynesian:

i. mana=animpersonalforceosupernaturalorigin,foundinallobjects,personandanimalsanda

sourceofpower

b. Polynesianorigin,importantconceptinearlieranthropology

c. Englishhadtoimportthewordinordertohaveclearerconcept

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d. Example2(English)

i. MarcelDuchamp1919(LHOOQ)

ii. Hot

iii. Shehasahotass(?)

iv. MarcelDuchamp1919LHOOQ(elleachaudaucul)

v. Cool

vi. Nice

vii. Weird

e. Example3(Love)

i. Doyouloveme?

ii. Isitlovedifyoudon’tsay“Iloveyou”?

iii. Isitpossibletobeinlovewithoutawordforlove?

f. Thehistoryoflove

i. Ahistoricallysituatedconcept

ii. AncientGreek:erosandagape

iii. Medievaltroubadours:loveoutsidemarriage

iv. Developingabout1450:“bourgeois”love

v. Thepreconditionformarriage

g. Thecapitalisteconomyandbourgeoislove

i. Mobile,wagelabour

ii. Weakerkinshipties

iii. Weakerfriendshipties

iv. Strongernuclearfamilyties

v. Thehusbandrwifer’shiptakesonsomeofthefunctionsoftheseweakenedties

h. Summary(love)

i. Iloveyou–thestatementispartofourexperienceoflove

ii. Iloveyou–alsomeansbywhichthesocioeconomicsystemproducesandreproducesitself

iii. Languagedoesnotdeterminecultureandculturedoesnotdeterminelanguage,but…

iv. Languageisapartofcultureandsociallife

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7. Metaphorandculture

a. Sociolinguistic

i. Studyoflanguageinsociety

ii. Studyoflanguageinsocialbehavior

iii. Usually,thefocusisonlanguagevariation

b. Languagesvarieties

i. Languages,dialects,accents–popular;notscientificterms

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8. Nation,language,dialect(importantforMCQ)

a. Languageisadialectwithanarmy

b. Languages–Danish,Norwegian,Russian,Ukrainian,Malay,Indonesian;Serbian,Croatian–languages

withastate

c. Dialects–Cantonese,Fukinese,Mandarin,etc…;Tagalog,Ilokano–nostate

d. Languageswithareligion(andscript)–Serbian,Croatian,Hindi,Urdu

e. LanguagesIdeology

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