ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Keith H. Basso, Paralanguage, Rekishi Monogatari
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Some speakers in nyc drop the /r/ in the middle and at end of words, associated with lower class, less education. Also find in other parts of northeast and in parts of new orleans. Study: get store employees to say fourth floor , to see if use /r/ in both words 2 stores (one geared towards wealthier customer, other working class) Language classifies together different aspects of experience. These kinds of grouping vary, are used as ways of guiding us into thinking about the world in particular ways. Language structure causes to habitually think about things in certain ways habit not determinism. Dell hymes and john gumperz- early 1960s. Remedy a gap at time, no comparative ethnographies pf how people use language. Hymes called for a structural analysis of communication in relation to speech that attends to patterns and functions of language use. Look at meaning in use - not just structural analysis of language, vocabulary and grammar.
