ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Written Language, William Labov, Pragmatics
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Ferdinand de saussure (1916) founder of modern day linguistics. Most of these endeavours seem similar but they are not. The most important books that you can buy are the textbooks. Linguistics- has the same type of precision as mathematics not like the ology"s. The founding text of linguistics and semiotics. Diachronic- historical/across time- how languages change and as it changes. Synchronic- present time- descriptive of how it is right now. There is no predictor of what"s to come. The grammatical structure of a language is unlikely to change. Lange is the language in our brain. You are using lange in certain ways. Linguistic anthropology- the way i was brought up colours the way i see the world. It names the world it doesn"t affect the world. There"s no one way to name a clock or watch. There will be a certain amount of relativity or the whorfian hypothesis. Bilingualism (the acquisition and use of two languages)
