LING 1203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, Word Formation
14 May 2016
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. Linguistic anthropology/anthropologists tend to look at how language affects social life or social aspects while regular linguistics tends to look at the technical aspects of language. Pidgin: a simplified language, with no original, native speakers, in which people of different native languages can communicate. Creoles: a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue. Register: one of the many styles or varieties of language determined by such factors as social occasion, purpose, and audience. Refers to to a group of languages that share basic vocabulary for family terms, body parts, and environmental terms. Share features of grammar, such as word formation: what is linguistic relativism and what might it look like in the real world? .
