Sunday, May 23, 2010

Bing-o !!!!

1. External Reality: slide 53

People acquire a set of words to speak about things that exist around them, which can vary depending on the language spoken.

2. Career Man: slide 80

Career man relates to the slide on language and gender because "career man" doesn't exist in English whereas career woman does. In our society men are expected to have a career and/or work so there is no need to have a word to specify that.

3. Piraha in Brazil: slide 56

The Piraha of Brazil are a tribe that has a very limited sense of the past.

4. Social gender: slide 78

We use social gender when we use words to classify individuals according to their gender roles in society.

5. money slide: 64

Contemporary English has many words for "money" because it is very important to our culture.

6. remember "borrowing?": slide 66

Borrowing is an example of language change.

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