Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Feral Child, Linguistic Determinism, Linguistic Relativity
25 Nov 2016
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Separation of language and culture: analytical resource. Humans as bio-cultural entities: part of our biological footprint. Language is a part of culture and necessary to culture a lot of things are learnt because people tell us-how we social in our own culture. !1: with more experience you can differentiate between different types of oak trees, ex. white oak between a red oak, with even more experience and the speci c knowledge some people can call it by its. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: two axioms (a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true): Linguistic relativity: structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world. Linguistic determinism: language determines how you see the world. Linguistic relativity: the grammatical distinctions, vocab ad sentence structure of the language(s) we speak in uence how we experience and think about the world.
