-Fear of loosing one’s frame of reference leads to ethnocentrism, but you don’t need to lose your frame of reference instead to accept alternatives -Commonalities- seeking diversity is one aspect but we also compare and analyze difference to discover possible similarities- “human universals”
-Boas- 1858-1942, fist professor of anthro in the U.S. (German) Belief in great chain of being in Europe. Language was “one of the most important manifestation of mental life” -Boas- 1858-1942, fist professor of anthro in the U.S. (German) Belief in great chain of being in Europe. Language was “one of the most important manifestation of mental life”
Unlike anthro which is holistic, comparative & fieldwork based- theoretical linguistics is focused, specific and intuitive. Goal- to describe the underlying structure of a language (what makes up a language specifically, like the skeleton) Specific- seeks language universals, such as generalizations that apply to all languages. O= objects follows V=verbs Intuitive- data gathering method is introspection (analysis of one’s own culture or the informants) BUT- To see the cat tree-in, or in Spanish “big house” would be house big (adjective follows object/subject) Ignores the social contexts in which language is used and regional differences. “New Yawk” Theoretical L. may fall into a erroneous generalizations
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