ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Official Language, Post-Creole Continuum, Call Centre
24 Aug 2020
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Linguistic relativity languages, see the world differently. Language shapes the way we see the world people who speak different. Ex: thinking about time, verbs in past present and future. Disglossia: language with high and low formal and informal dialect. Linguistic relativity: all dialects are equally effective as systems of. People rank speech patterens as better or wrose due to the relationship with. Ex: saying yall communication groups that they are associated with which can lead to stratification. Pidgin: a language with no native speakers that develops in a single generation. Video: between members of communities that possess a distinct language. Pidgin is a bunch of different languages mixed together. When people started working on the plantations, they couldn"t understand each other so they would use english and their own languages to get by. Manapuo: a delicious pork thing bread w/ pork in it.
