Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Competence, Communicative Competence

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What is linguistic anthropology? make detailed descriptions about how people talk, etc. make generalizations, look for patterns and commonalities within our study: patterns and description, ex. Politeness, ways to be polite in all kinds of languages. Knowledge and learning happens through language: creating social relationships: interactions with friends and family. Building relationships with those who speak different languages. choices we make in communicating in terms of changing contexts and relationships. Speech communities: group of people who share some rules for communication (how to speak properly or interpret it, different levels of speech community, developed over common interests, groups, etc. Interactional rules: knowing how to speak in a socially acceptable way, takes time and experience to gain communicative competence. Linguistic determinism: the language you speak determines the way you think, not quite right. Linguistic relativity: the language we speak influences the way we think about the world, guides us to pay attention to some features and ignore others.

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