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ch3-1. Linguistic Manifestation: Culturally-determined CC 3.0 The Work under the Creative Commons Taiwan 3.0 License of BY-NC-SA. I-wen Su Slide 2 bai cai ( fa cai) Flickr beautifulcataya Slide 3 fa cai ( fa cai) Flickr Slide 4 qin cai ( qin xue) Slide 5 cong ( cong ming) Flickr * * Slide 6 suan ( hui da suan pan) suanshu arithmatics Wiki Donovan Govan. Slide 7 cai tou ( hao cai tou) Wiki Chris 73 Slide 8 zong zi ( bao zhong ) 1.(to wrap) 2. guaranteed Flickr Slide 9 Language-culture relationship Linguistics and anthropology Franz Boas: Lg patterns are unconscious and provide access to unconscious cultural patterning otherwise inaccessible to researchers Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf Language constitutes the means with which individuals think or determine cultural thought, perception & world view Slide 10 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Search for isomorphisms between grammar and culture Weak form: language provides the means for thought and perception Strong form: language conditions thought, perception and world view Slide 11 Copyright Declaration WorkLicensingAuthor/Source Flickr beautifulcataya http://www.flickr.com/photos/beautifulcataya/3688112732/ 2011/10/9 visited Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/pancala/375532939/ 2011/10/9 visited Wiki Lombroso http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celery_1.jpg 2011/10/9 visited Flickr * * http://www.flickr.com/photos/enixii/4904706588/ 2011/10/9 visited Slide 12 Copyright Declaration WorkLicensingAuthor/Source Wiki Donovan Govan. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Garlic.jpg 2011/10/9 visited Wiki Chris 73 http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Daikon.Japan.jpg 2011/10/9 visited Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/vein_vein/3581194061/ 2011/10/9 visited Slide 13 Copyright Declaration WorkLicensingAuthor/Source p.9 Boas, Franz. 1911. Introduction. Handbook of American Indian Languages (BAE-B 40, Part 1). Pp. 1-83. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. and used subject to the fair use doctrine of the Taiwan Copyright Act Article 50 by NTU OCW p.9 Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. Language, Thought, and Reality. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. and used subject to the fair use doctrine of the Taiwan Copyright Act Article 50 by NTU OCW