ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Code-Switching
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That language influences other aspects of culture. Edward sapir and benjamin lee whorf suggested that language is a force in its own right, that it affects how people perceive and conceive reality. Ronald wardhaugh believes that language differences lead hopi and english speakers to see the world differently. Alexander guiora studied children and gender associations in language. John lucy studied the yucatec and english language by comparing the number of things, nouns. In recent years, many linguists have begun to study how people in a society vary in how they speak. This type of study is called sociolinguistics, which is concerned with the ethnography of speaking that is with the cultural and subcultural patterns of speech variation in different social contexts. A sociolinguist might ask what types of things one talks about in casual conversation with a stranger. Research has shown the higher class speakers tend to have more homogeneous speech, conforming to what is standard english (tv and radio)
