ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nim Chimpsky, Francine Patterson, Paralanguage
Document Summary
Strong version: linguistic determinism : language determines thought and worldview, words for color and perception of color. Weak version: linguistic relativity : language influences but doesn"t determine thought, spanish-gendered nouns and articles. 1980: time is a physical thing : spending time, argument is a war : you killed that guy in the debate, love is a force : he makes me feel electric. Words shaped by words -thompson: dynamic between environment and language. The study of language: linguistics: sub-discipline of anthropology that focuses on study of all aspects of human language. Historical: where language systems come from, how they evolved. Socio-linguistics: study of language how its used presently. Speech: technical aspects: tongue location in humans, non-hum primates: high voice box and hyoid bone to make high pitches sounds, broca"s area: speech production, frontal lobe, wernicke"s area: speech comprehension, back of brain. Language aphasia (dysphasic speech): problems with speech production.
