ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Paul Grice, Cooperative Principle, Sarah Palin
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Linguistic anthropology: the role of language in human social life. Winking is uniquely human (no other animal winks) In other cases winking is combined with talk. Geertz claims that there is a very big difference between a wink and a blink. On way to try and understand what language is: compare it to other modes of communication. A wink is a symbol and has a meaning. Sarah palin wink, people assumed something bigger than what it was intended for. A wink is a form of intentional communication. Or shared intentionality model of human communication (pass the salt pictures) Not all words refer so you can have verbal communication without reference too the something that they are communicating about is what they are jointly attending to. Non-referential communication perception of an object without known points of reference. Referential communication communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between 2 speakers.
