ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Labov, James Teit, Linguistic Anthropology

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

Document Summary

Linguistics (etic) - interested in describing languages/how languages work. Formal properties of languages (sounds, rules of language use, speech) Socio-linguistics - description of how languages work/formal properties but within social settings. How does pronunciation change with friends vs at. More associated w sociology work (social context) Relationship between how people talk and their class. Linguistic anthropology (emic) - interest in how language and culture are associated. Interest in language as speakers use it, not formal rules. Linguists interested in sounds; linguistic anthropologists interested in sounds in context. Morphology - study of the structure of words; study of morphemes (the smallest unit in a language that means something) Pin as root noun, the s = plural. Unfaithful: faith = root noun; un = negative; ful. Z sound; ice (mice, dice); cactus > cacti; goose & geese; to add nothing (deer, moose, sheep)