ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Netsilik Inuit, Language Family, Language Politics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Language: means of transmitting information and sharing experiences. Linguistics: the modern scientific study of all aspects of language. 2 the sound and shape of language: phonetics, the study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds, about 6 000 languages presently exist. 2. 1 phonology: sounds, capability to make the sounds in any language, each individual is unique, phonemes, smallest classes of sound that change meaning, minimal pair test. 2. 2 morphology: morpheme, smallest unit of sounds that carry a meaning, words, cats and dogs. 2. 3 grammar and syntax: frame substitution, method used to identify syntactic units of language, syntax, rules or principles of phrase and sentence making, grammar, morphology and syntax. 3 the gesture-call system: body language and extra linguistic noises, at least 90% of emotional information is english is transmitted by body language and tone of voice. 3. 1 kinesics: system of notating and analyzing postures, facial expressions, and body motions that convey messages.