Anthropology 340 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
... pre-history of languages and determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families. • Developing general theories about how and why language changes. • Etymology - studying the history of words. ...
... pre-history of languages and determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families. • Developing general theories about how and why language changes. • Etymology - studying the history of words. ...
Language
... 2. Single individuals may change the way they talk depending upon the social requirements of a given setting--this is called style shifting. 3. Diglossia is the regular shifting from one dialect to another (e.g., high and low variants of a language) by members of a single linguistic population. 4. L ...
... 2. Single individuals may change the way they talk depending upon the social requirements of a given setting--this is called style shifting. 3. Diglossia is the regular shifting from one dialect to another (e.g., high and low variants of a language) by members of a single linguistic population. 4. L ...
Topic 21
... The role of the CNS in development of language: • The brain is the coordinating center of all linguistic activity • it controls both the production of linguistic cognition and of meaning and the mechanics of speech production • our knowledge of the neurological bases for language is quite limited, t ...
... The role of the CNS in development of language: • The brain is the coordinating center of all linguistic activity • it controls both the production of linguistic cognition and of meaning and the mechanics of speech production • our knowledge of the neurological bases for language is quite limited, t ...
Structure of Words&Sentences
... Language Extinction • How many languages in the world? • 6,300 current estimate – How many are at risk (under 20,000 speakers)? • Nearly 4,000 – How many have fewer than 100 speakers? • Nearly 500. ...
... Language Extinction • How many languages in the world? • 6,300 current estimate – How many are at risk (under 20,000 speakers)? • Nearly 4,000 – How many have fewer than 100 speakers? • Nearly 500. ...
Foresight - Unique Media TV
... • No discussion of the grounding of language. Use of analogy: can a computer understand language without a grounding of language? • Solving the problem of speech is not the same as solving the problem of language. • Communication between brains and communication within brains: what can one teach abo ...
... • No discussion of the grounding of language. Use of analogy: can a computer understand language without a grounding of language? • Solving the problem of speech is not the same as solving the problem of language. • Communication between brains and communication within brains: what can one teach abo ...
AAASS-04-paper(final)
... it has produced, i.e. a shared repertoire of resources (practices, sensibilities, artifacts, vocabulary, discourses, styles, etc.) that members have developed as part of a process of social learning. The concept of “community of practice” provides a more empirically satisfying model of social struct ...
... it has produced, i.e. a shared repertoire of resources (practices, sensibilities, artifacts, vocabulary, discourses, styles, etc.) that members have developed as part of a process of social learning. The concept of “community of practice” provides a more empirically satisfying model of social struct ...
Cultural Anthro
... culture, society, and a person’s social position determine language. – A form of cultural constructionism socio-linguistics asserts that an individual’s culture and social context shape their language and its meanings. ...
... culture, society, and a person’s social position determine language. – A form of cultural constructionism socio-linguistics asserts that an individual’s culture and social context shape their language and its meanings. ...
LING 7800
... embedded in culture and society. The definition of profanity pursued in this course includes any use of language that is ideologically positioned as offensive to taste, sensibilities, and/or classes of persons, such as curse words, sexual registers, youth slang, verbal taboo, vulgar language, pornog ...
... embedded in culture and society. The definition of profanity pursued in this course includes any use of language that is ideologically positioned as offensive to taste, sensibilities, and/or classes of persons, such as curse words, sexual registers, youth slang, verbal taboo, vulgar language, pornog ...
Chapter 4
... Grammar/syntax provides the practices for combining words into intelligible utterances (usually “sentences”), expressing culturally-relevant and –relative aspects of experience (for instance, time, person, number, gender, case, etc.). ...
... Grammar/syntax provides the practices for combining words into intelligible utterances (usually “sentences”), expressing culturally-relevant and –relative aspects of experience (for instance, time, person, number, gender, case, etc.). ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Language in Cognitive Science
... frowns, etc.) -- gestures (hand movement, body positioning, posture, etc.) ...
... frowns, etc.) -- gestures (hand movement, body positioning, posture, etc.) ...
2. The ethnography of speaking and the structure of conversation
... The study of language must deal with the ‘real’ texts that form human communication and the social situations they are used in. The speech event is constituted by seven distinct factors, each associated with a different function: - speaker / writer, - hearer / reader, - message form (passed between ...
... The study of language must deal with the ‘real’ texts that form human communication and the social situations they are used in. The speech event is constituted by seven distinct factors, each associated with a different function: - speaker / writer, - hearer / reader, - message form (passed between ...
Sociolinguistics
... Ethnography of speaking Study of cultural rules which organize speech. Assume speech is patterned in culturally-specific and cross-culturally variable ways ...
... Ethnography of speaking Study of cultural rules which organize speech. Assume speech is patterned in culturally-specific and cross-culturally variable ways ...