[2246F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 27 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2246F/G
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

Document Summary

Writing: permanent, communicates across time and space, more complex, longer sentences, prone to ambiguity out of context, punctuation, layout, colours etc. convey meaning, some grammatical constructions not used in speech. Speech: ephemeral once the sound disappears, it"s no longer there, has repetitions, incomplete sentences, corrections. Immediate interactions: context and shared knowledge can reduce ambiguity. Intonation, pitch, volume, speed etc. convey meaning: speaker can be uniquely identified. Other ways of expressing language: language of icons, asl, symbols (emojis, driving signs etc. , colour coding (red=danger etc. , logos, the noun project. Proto-writing: limited form of written communication, tallies: quipus, bones, tally sticks, pictography: pertroglyphs, pictographs, geoglyphs, clay tokens, clay envelopes (bulla, clay tablets. Quipus (1500"s: a series of ropes tied around runners, certain people with specializations visited villages with quipus, covers all different kinds of cultures. Yugikur love letter : another example of proto-writing, written on the bark of a tree. In some cultures, petroglyphs still play a major role.