Human Language
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Human Language
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Language and Culture Language: _________________________
Importance of language for human life 1. only animal capable of _______________ 2. avenue of communication & thought
concerning abstract concepts, and concrete persons, places, things, actions, & events
3. _____________of culture aided by _________
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Linguistic Anthropology Focus on language
________________________
Generally interested in how language changes Examples:
Comparisons World economy Gender
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Language and Communication What is the difference between language
and communication?
Communication: Act of transferring information to others 1. 2.
Language can be thought of as a way of communicating 1.
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Human Language Distinctive 1. Openness (a.k.a. ________) _________________ to create totally
novel sentences and a ___________ to comprehend them
A language’s __________________ can be combined into a infinite number of meaningful sentences
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Human Language Distinctive 2. Displacement Our ability to talk about __________
__________________________________
Due to usage of symbols to transmit meanings
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Human Language Distinctive 3. Arbitrariness ___________________________
between particular linguistic sounds & particular linguistic meanings
Evidence in the design feature of language known as ________________ and ______________
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Communication Among Non-Human Primates
Primates don’t ______
Parts of calls are not ___________ to get new information
Their calls are _____________
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Language, Thought, and Culture
Language _________________ Coined by _______________ Mastery of adult grammar
Communicative _________________ Coined by ______________ Mastery of adult rules for socially &
culturally appropriate speech
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Language, Thought, and Culture
Noam Chomsky Set of rules – ___________________________
Human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language
All Languages = ________________________
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Language, Thought, and Culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Idea that different languages produce
_______________________________
English & Hopi languages
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Language, Thought, and Culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, continued Initial ideas centered on ‘all thoughts
being constrained, or determined, by language’ Various studies have:
1. 2.
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Language, Thought, and Culture
__________ Vocabulary Set of words describing
particular domains of experience
Examples: 1.
2.
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Pragmatics Study of language in context of its
use 1. 2.
Discourse ____________________________________
Series of verbal exchanges in conversation
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Ethnopragmatics Study of language use:
Relies on ethnography to illuminate the ways in which speech is both constituted by and constitutive social interaction
Focus on practice - how are rules of grammar, cultural values, and physical action conjoined
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Language Revitalization
Collaboration between linguistic anthropologists and fluent speakers of indigenous languages
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Language Revitalization
Hinton’s work in CA: