ANT 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Terrence Deacon, Noam Chomsky, Biological Anthropology
31 Jan 2019
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01/29/31: what is language, what is linguistic, the scientific study of language, why do anthropologists study language, the system of arbitrary vocal symbols people used to encode their experience of the world. It"s a way to communicate with one another. It"s what sets us apart from the animal kingdom. It is such an integral part of culture. Without language, we wouldn"t be able to have cultures: this isn"t true for people who conduct their research in the community they, language is a cultural product, there is a relationship between language and culture. Six are important among the sixteen: openness, arbitrariness, duality of patterning, displacement, prevarication. Semanticity: noam chomsky (1965) emphasized human language is creative, biological anthropologist terrence deacon (1977) points out that modern human beings still possess a set of six calls, laughing. Screaming with fright: crying in pain, groaning. Sighing: what does it mean to learn a language, all children learn some form of a language.
