ANTH 02202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proxemics, Historical Linguistics, Body Language
11 Nov 2016
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Communication: conveying meaningful messages from one person, animal or insect to another. Language: communication that is based on a systemic set of learned and shared symbols and signs. All languages use no more than 50 sounds and all used to communicate information to one another. Linguists (those who study all languages) are organized in the same basic manner. Productivity: ability to create an infinite range of understandable message efficiently: due to rich variety of symbols, allows to greater efficiency that nonhuman primate call systems. Displacement: ability to refer to events in the past and future (displaced domains) Descriptive: unraveling a language by recording, describing and analyzing all its features. Tondi languages: sound pitch of a spoken word is an essential part of its pronoun and meaning. Not only study of dead languages but also current languages b/c langos change as cultures change. Language family: group of languages descended from a single ancestral language.
