ANTHRO 33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Anthropology, Universal Grammar, Noam Chomsky
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Different words for getting high (san fran) Young people who won"t learn their native language (papua new guinea) Langue v. parole: langue: grammar + phonology, parole: how language is used, believed only langue should be studied, while linguistic anthropologists believe both are important. Theory of the sign: sign: anything that can be read as having meaning. Arbitrariness of the sign: there is no particular reason that cat or gato should conjure the image of a cat. Universal grammar: we are all inherently born with a set of rules that tells us how to make language, linguistic anthropologists disagree, believe we all have the capacity to learn language, but it"s not inherent. Competence v. performance: similar to langue v. parole, competence: everyone has a knowledge of how to produce the language ideally, performance: how it"s actually used. Cannot just look @ just grammar, must look at how the language is used, the context it"s in.
