ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sign Language, System Call, Language Shift

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1220
• Professor: Kathleen Buddle

Document Summary

Communication is the process of sending and receiving messages from one or more person, animals or insect. Dialect refers to a sub variety of language associated with a region, social class, or ethnic group. In every region or places there are dialect: also, it"s a way of speaking in a particular place or variety of language, how specific place convey language. Speaker (can be a person) of main language of particular place should understand local dialects with perhaps with difficulty: example dialect in philippines are tagalog (main and official) kapampangan, Nonverbal language: signs language is a form of communication that used mostly handy movements to convey messages, most sign language is used by people who have hearing impairment and that"s one of the main communications. In other contexts, silence is associated with power: for example, in the court the silent jury hold the most power in the room or court. Linguistic anthropology studies all aspects of human communication, especially non-