ANTH 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eleanor Rosch, Moe Williams, Prototype Theory
9 May 2020
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Harriet joseph ottenheimer - language and culture (pp. Agglutinating language = a language that tends to put strings of ideas into long words (ex. Isolating language = a language that puts seperate ideas into separate words (ex. Learning another language means learning how it organizes ideas into words, phrases and sentences. Therefore, anthropologists need to learn and do their languages in the language of the people they are working with. Different degrees of specificity might actually reflect something about the ways that speakers carve up their worlds use language to gain insight into how the speakers perceive and categorize the world. The idea of ethnosemantics was to explore the way a specific area of cultural emphasis (or semantic domain) was divided up or named. Ethnosemantics is a great way to learn precise, culturally informed meanings of sets of words and therefore a good way to begin learning a new language or culture (sets of words yield mental maps)
