PSYC 3210 Chapter 10: PSYC3210 Chapter 10 Notes

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Psychology 3210 chapter 10: culture, language, and communication. The co-evolution of language and human culture: human cultures exist precisely because of the ability to have language. Culture and lexicons: one way in which cultures influence the language lexicon is in what is known as self- other referents, that is, what we call ourselves and others. In the japanese language, often the decision about what is appropriate to call yourself and another person depends on the status differences between the two people. If you are of higher status than the other person, in japan you would refer to yourself by position or role rather than by the english equivalent of i. In many languages, different words are used to denote different things being counted. If a word exists in a language that does not exist in others, then that concept was important enough in that culture to have justified having its own word to refer to is: e. g.

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