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Re: Linguistic issues and anthropology
Mr. E (jackechs@EROLS.COM)
Sun, 11 Feb 1996 15:36:05 -0500
Thank you for taking your time and space to answer that. I'm getting a much
clearer picture now than I had before ... but then that's what clarification
does.
At 02:48 PM 02/11/96 -0500, Ronald Kephart wrote:
>Linguistics issues, contemporary and otherwise, relate to anthropology because
>language is (to paraphrase Derek Bickerton: see his recent Language and Human
>Behavior) the secondary representational system which allows humans to possess
>culture (as opposed to chimp proto-culture). As such, language gives us
>representations which can we can manipulate internally ("thinking") and
which we
>can also share with others ("communication"). Those representations
include the
>labels we use for ourselves and others. To ignore linguistic issues is to
>ignore the thing that most defines us as Homo sapiens sapiens; in my opinion,
>anthropology cannot afford to do that and still call itself "the science of
>humankind."
>
>Ronald Kephart
>Department of Language & Literature
>University of North Florida
>Jacksonville, FL 32224
>ph: 904-646-2580
>e-mail: rkepha@unf.edu
>
>
respectfully submitted,
Anthony Dauer
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of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand
Russell, Earl Russell (1872-1970) An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
[1950].
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (1882-1945) First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1933].
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