ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sociolinguistics, Kinesics, Proxemics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Looking to understand the meaning behind different rules. Note: not doing structure of language (descriptive linguistics); nor historical. Gesture-(cid:272)all syste(cid:373)s vs hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage (cid:894)(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t have (cid:272)ulture (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:272)a(cid:374)t (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate like we can apes) Can talk about what happened in the past, or lie) (hard to do that with gesture calls) Kinesics: study of postures, facial expressions, and body motions that convey messages. Proxemics: distance maintained in various linguistic interactions (culturally dictated) ex. People talking close to you, some might think they are in your bubble. Paralanguage: extra linguistic noises that accompany language but convey some type of meaning. Social dialects: linguistic norms & behavior which vary by social categories (ex. class, age, ethnicity. Style: selection of linguistic forms to convey social or artistic meaning. Signifies type of relationship between speakers (ex formal/informal forms of address, like sayi(cid:374)g vous i(cid:374) fre(cid:374)(cid:272)h, or usi(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e(cid:859)s title. Code switching (between more than one language ex. franglais)