ANT206H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Intersubjectivity, Conversation Analysis, Determinative
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Does it impact the way i see the world: e. g. Example of the words different languages use to signify the same thing. E. g. father is a different word in french, spanish, english and german yet means the same. Language as a warehouse of vocabulary items, a source of comparison with others. What matters to speakers: not the historical connections between languages, but the system, the structure of the language they speak now. Language is like a game of chess: symbolic objects that only mean something in terms of what they do and their position in the game. Saussure was only interested in the structure of language, not in its actually usage: langue (language)/parole (speech) Language is not complete in any speaker; it exists perfectly only within a collectivity. Relation between the sign and the signifier vs. what is signified. Does the word c h a i r necessarily mean chair.
