ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Linguistic Description, Sociolinguistics, Mixed Language
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Communication: conveying meaningful messages from one person, animal or insect to another. Language: communication that"s based on a systematic set of learned. La(cid:374)guage (cid:862)(cid:373)akes i(cid:374)fi(cid:374)ite use of fi(cid:374)ite (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s(cid:863)- w. von humboldt. Single letters represent multiple different sounds: dame, dad, father, call, village, many. Same sound can be represented by different combinations: to, to, two, through, threw, clue, shoe. Many groups lack a written language so anthropologists, missionaries & others try to document them. Pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s: a(cid:374)y sou(cid:374)ds are(cid:374)(cid:859)t fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish so e(cid:374)glish letters are approximate. Diff sounds that a letter makes in english. Goal is to document & understand rules of particular language. Syntax: order of words in a sentence. Lexicon: all of the words in a language. Call systems: patterned forms of communication that express meaning. Philology: comparative study of ancient texts & documents. Cognate words: words in 2+ languages that may sound somewhat diff today (cid:271)ut (cid:449)ould(cid:859)(cid:448)e (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged syste(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally fro(cid:373) the sa(cid:373)e (cid:449)ord.
