ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Phonology, Closed System, Phoneme

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Tapa: represents the maisin culture and the way the maisin sustain themselves. : focus on the group leads to generalizaion, not paricularizaion. Also very litle descripion of violence and crime (utopia descripion), very litle descripion of sexuality. Focus on describing languages and how they work. Formal properies of languages and sounds that emphasizes speech. Interested in the rules of language use: how people actually construct words and sentences. Focus is sill on descripion (how sounds and words are made/change) but within social seings. How tone, sound choices change depending on who people are talking to and what they are talking about-think sarah palin dropping her g"s to seem relatable. How people talk is related to social class. Interested in language as speakers use it (i. e. as every day speech occurs) Associated with anthropology and indigenous peoples and languages. All cultures have languages, i. e. human being have the biological capacity to be linguisic.