ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edward Burnett Tylor, Creole Language, Historical Linguistics
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Bev as incorrect : proper language itself becomes a strategic resource-and a path to wealth, prestige, and power. Historical linguistics studies long term linguistic change. Languages change over time, dividing into sub-groups (dialects) If dialects are isolated long enough, they emerge as distinct daughter languages. Historical linguists can reconstruct many features of past languages by studying contemporary daughter language-languages that descend from the same parent language (protolanguage) eg. Historical linguistics classify languages according to their degree of relationship. Mix of english and spanish on us mexico border: acculturation-direct contact, often forced change. Pidgin-new type of language develops in colonial setting. Has a longer history then pidgin language pidgin become creole language when the language becomes first (native) language learned through enculturation. Losing language means ur losing a way of seeing the world. Objective is to explore how diverse cultural groups to understand the eworld, and how understanding is related to ways of being and social practice.
