ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chantek, Paralanguage, Foxp2
39
ANTH 1000 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
39 documents
Document Summary
A system of communication that uses symbols - such as words, sounds and gestures - organized according to certain rules, to convey any kind of information. - ken guest. Displacement is how we talk about things that aren"t present at the moment. People talk about things that occured in the past or that will occur in the future, such as actions that have been performed or will be performed. People talk about ideas and concepts that are not real in the physical world. Productivity: sounds can be combined in new ways to meet new demands and challenges we encounter by using established structures of language. Primates use complex communication that is made up of a variety of vocalizations and gestures as well as a complex system of body language. Primatologists are a type of anthropologist that study primates, who are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
