AN324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bogeyman, Onomatopoeia, Arbitrariness
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Symbolic systems and ideologies: how values and norms come across in the symbolic systems and ideologies, study of language in anthropology. Learn the culture that the language belongs to: saudade (brazilian word)- substantive for saying you miss something or someone (full of nostalgia, longing, heartache, pain, bittersweet as well, speech community (a term in ethno pragmatics and sociolinguistics) A concrete group of people associated with a particular language. E. g. making up a language and code when you are younger with your friends. Shows a commonality and diversity of those who use the language. The system of arbitrary vocal symbols that we use to convey our experience in the world. E. g. traffic lights are not a language, but they are symbols: characteristics of human language. Displacement- e. g. need to have a chair in the room for someone to talk about a chair (we have the mental image of it), boogeyman (something that is not present)
