ANTH 120 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Linguistics, Grammar, Spanish Language
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We see speakers above all as social actors, carrying out a role. Competence ( langue ): knowledge (factual) of a language, grammar, vocab, rules, colloquilisms etc. Competence comes from chomsky langue from sausurre. Performance ( parole ): how what falls under competence is used, less important for linguistics but important for linguistic anthropology. Both these definitions come from sausurre the father of modern linguistics as well as chomsky. Linguistic anthropologists view competence/langue as a sort of toolkit for figuring things out/getting things done and performance/parole as more what is studies. Idea for answer two comes from hymes, when to use/say what. What"s in the toolkit and how to use the tools. Each language has a phonological repertoire that is unique to it. Vowel space: where/how sounds are produced in the human mouth, can chart this for every language. Minimal pairs: two sounds put together that then differ in how they are pronounced.
