LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE

PIGEON VS CREOLE

OPENESS

DISPLACEMENT

ARBITRARINESS

PREVICATION

SEMANTICITY

PIGEON VS CREOLE

Pigeon: No ancestry relation to the language was made due to interconnecting societies having to communicate with each other creating dialects

Creole: Has ancestry expect its very complex due to the having one or more ancestry language speakers

WHAT IS OPENNESS

• A system which si creative and changes all the time

• Demonstrates how things changes and is open to new things - different POVS A

• Closed primates cannot exist in the human language as it is always changing

WHAT IS DISPLACEMENT

Ability to talk about non existent objects, the past, or future

WHAT IS PREVICATION

• Lying

• Being able to device/ mislead

• Only a feature for humans

WHAT IS ARBITRARINESS

Things we say might have nothing to do with what we mean

• DUALITY OF PATTERNING - sound and meaning AKA phenomenal and morphemes

PHENOMES VS MORPHEMES

Phenomes: sound of language

Morphemes: breaking of words

SEMANTICITY

The study of meaning

• How words relate to each other

• We also have words that sound the same but mean different things

DENOTATIVE VS CONNOTATIVE

Denotative: Formal Meanings - Dictionary

Connotative: Additional Meanings of a word which in context is related to multiple things over culture - no dictionary

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

• power to shape the way we see the world

• “SAPIR-WHORPH HYPOTHESIS: flexible way of how language allows us to see the world through patterns of our world, and thoughts of our patterns through the culture”

PRAGMATICS VS ETHNOGRAPHICS

Pragmatic: study of language in the context of its usage (meaning behind things)

Ethnographics: paying close attention to the approach of human language to the relationships among communications and social interactions (paying close attention)

WHAT IS HETERGLOSSIA

Coexistence of multiple languages

• “We can believe that the way speak will change due to our place in society”

• EX church vs bar, home vs school, funeral vs birthday

WHAT IS DISCOURSE

Having a conversation with someone or yourself

LANGUAGE IDEAOLOGIES

System of beliefs that language reflects on your social class, education , and societal features

• AKE CODE SWITCHING: can become a downfall of languages due to one language might thinking that another language is superior

• Ex western vs British English

LANGUAGE REVALITIZATION

Perceiving/reviving languages

Recognizes that languages are under threat

Knows that losing a language also means losing history and culture

OTHER KEY FACTS

LANGUAGE IS POWERFUL

WE CAN SEE LANGUAGE THROUGH COLOUR - pink and blue