ANT253H1 Lecture 1: ANT253H1 Textbook & Lecture Notes
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The ancient greek philosophers de ned language as part of l gos, the faculty of the human brain that had transformed the human being from an insentient brute into a rational, sentient creature. Linguistic anthropology - to understand how humans think as part of living together in pronunciation and grammar groups and how language interlinks with social forms, concepts, and activities. What is language: language comes from latin lingua, meaning tongue . Use tongue to create forms of thought known as words or signs. A sign is anything that stands for something other than itself: there is no better or worse language. Language and speech: language is a sign system, speech is the used of that system to transmit verbal messages. Speech can be vocal, involving the use of the vocal organs (tongue, teeth, lungs), or nonvocal (writing or gesturing) One can have language without speech but cannot have speech without language.
