Anthropology M241: Topics in Linguistic Anthropology: Linguistic Relativity

Winter 2003(Haines 310)
Wednesday 10am-1pm

Instructor: Prof. Alessandro Duranti
Office: Haines 349  Ph. (310) 825-5833
Office Hours: Thursday 10-12
or by appointment (aduranti@anthro.ucla.edu)

[updated January 15, 2003]


Assignment 2
  1. Review the readings for this week, the hand-out and your notes and using the two poems by Pablo Neruda handed-out in class, discuss two of the following issues: 1. Language as a system of choices; 2. the affective and propositional functions of language (as defined by Cassirer),; and 3. the possible meaning(s) of the view that "language speaks" and poets may be the ones to allow us to hear what "language says"(max. 900)

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    Check the readings. I made some changes from the original list.

    Readings available in the Anthropology Reading Room, Haines 352