ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hominidae, Jane Goodall, Historical Linguistics

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Sociolinguistics: how are speaking patterns are shaped by our identities (ie. gendered, class, how it"s related to your particular background) ! Ie. number of studies relating to class in england just by their accents (and what particular class they belong to; different manners of speaking such as vocabulary and accents) ! Historical linguistics: how a particular language has changed over time! Ie. how english language has changed over the past 500 years, for example how language has changed/shaped in response to changing technologies! Interested in looking at coffee shop speaking patterns, ie. how baristas talk in terms of their vocabularies, accents, use of languages! If you were to go to starbucks vs. tim hortons, you"d see a difference in how people talk (ie. vocabulary in terms of choice of coffee such as grande vs. small) ! This means other primates, such as great apes or orang-utans and transitional species such as neanderthals! Variety of different subtypes of anthropology !

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