ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phatic Expression, Communicative Competence, Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Language is a system of symbols that people use to encode their experience and communicate with others: all humans have language, language is crucial to social action. Body language, tone, etc: language is crucial to social learning. Can"t raise children without it: language is context specific. Why language interests anthropologists: communicate with our hosts, document disappearing languages, analyze language as a window into culture. Dr. edward sapir, expert on native american linguistics. Language as a way to examine cultural: predictability and structure, creativity, play, and change. Language is a central place to look. One of the first people to begin describing features of other languages (clusivity, absolute direction, etc. ) Empty gas containers habits of thought : fires caused from smoking because containers were labeled. Ex: hopi has two different words for water: one for flowing water, and one for still: the world"s languages can be profoundly different from one another. How language divides and categorizes the world: sapir-whorf hypothesis.

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