ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Linguistic Anthropology, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Morpheme
5 Apr 2018
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Language is a system for communicating in symbols, and the symbols are generated. Anthropologists understand that culture is learned and transmitted from one person to another and from one generation to the next. This transmission depends on effective communication systems, which are far more complex than communications systems of all other animals. All cultures accomplish this communication through some form of language, which is perhaps the most distinctive of all human characteristics. culturally. If the meaning from the symbol is natural or self-evident, such as a smile as a symbol of happiness, the symbol is called a signal. In human culture, we ultimately depend on a system for communicating, and our system is far more complex than any system used by other animals. The modern scientific study of all aspects of language. The study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds.
