ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Manufacturing Consent, Language Ideology, Neuroplasticity
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Language and signifying behavior in general, limits what we can say, think and do, Often below the level of our consciousness. And can be hegemonic: thou shalt not steal hegemonic notion as it supports the social order. Social variation: accents, sociologists, registers: hegemony: three approaches. Language, dialect, and accents : popular, not scientific terms. Language: a dialect with an army if a way of speaking is associated with a social or political power it becomes a language. ; tagalog, ilokano varieties with no state. Languages : serbian, croatian; hindi, urdu varieties with a region (and script) Objective reasons: critical period for learning distant languages: 11-14 years of age, brain plasticity. Subjective reasons: foreign accents depends on both production and reception of speech: how people speak and how we hear them. Accent classifications reflect relations across the world and within the community. I don"t see nothin" wrong with beasts o" the southern wile winnin" an oscar .
