ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Historical Linguistics, Proto-Language, Edward Burnett Tylor
Document Summary
People use and evaluate speech in the context of social, political and economic forces. Speech by lower-status groups are often evaluated negatively (considered. Incorrect or uneducated speech), not because it is ineffective or wrong but just because it is used by those particular people. Proper language itself becomes a strategic resource - and a path to wealth, prestige and power. E. g partly explains difficulty of people in ethnography of entering the formal service sector. Bourdieu calls this symbolic domination when people who are able to use the. Proper language are considered to be more superior or in power , than the people who speak a dialect. One particular way of speaking may be considered symbolically more dominated or inferior not because it is incorrect but just because of judgement over the people who speak that way. They look at how language is divided into subgroups. If dialects are isolated long enough they emerge as distinct daughter languages.
