movie reflections

This week in the cultures of science…

This week in the cultures of science…

Alan Dundes needs an update…

This week in the cultures of science…

PURE means all no

NATURE CULTURE

DON’T THINK OF AN

ELEPHANT

Signs are denotative (name)

Signs are connotative (metaphor)

Signs are performative (force)

Signs mean things and signs do things.

“The scientific method” means something and does something…

“The scientific method” performs a boundary

for different reasons, at different times, in different places

“Don’t think of a wall!”

A truth of linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Language (speech, discourse) does more than represent and inform.

Language is informative and performative.