ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Interrupt, Paralanguage, Nonverbal Communication
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Ant1101 lecture iii language and communication: signal: instinctive sound or gesture; natural or self-evident meaning : ; . Meaning intelligible to all who share . Innate predisposition to learn language--> but language itself is learned - - > , : language forms, dialect : varied form by region, occupation, social; class; mutually intelligible . (cid:28573) (cid:28573) : pidgin : simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. Physiological requirements : writing systems . Interrupt during talking: socio-linguistics: language and society , study of the structure and use of language as it relates to social settings . Ethnography of speaking : style: selection of linguistic forms to convey social or artistic meaning : . Ex: formal/informal forms of address (cid:28573) : social dialects , code switching -when people switch different languages in different occasions, ethno-linguistics : language and culture , gendered differences :