ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Family
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Communication is the process of sending and receiving meaningful messages. Among humans it involved a form of language, a systematic set of symbols and signs with learned meanings . Clothing (head coverings, kimono sleeve length, different colors according to gender) Phonemes: sound that makes a difference in spoken language. Ethnosemantics: meaning of language in particular cultural contexts. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: people"s language affects how they think. People who speak different languages know the world in different ways. Sociolinguistics: cultural and social contexts shape people"s language and their meanings including a person"s social position. No two languages are similar enough to be considered as representing the same social reality. The words in which different cultures live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. Historical linguistics: language families from which languages derived. Language family: a group of languages descended from a parent language. Writing systems emerge with the development of the state.