ANTH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anthropological Linguistics, Roman Jakobson, Hockey Stick

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Neitzel

Document Summary

Anthropology: the academic discipline that studies all of humanity. Cultural relativism: notion that one should not judge the behavior of other peoples using the standard of ones own culture. Ethnography: written description of the way of life of some human population. Fieldwork: ethnographic research that involves observing and interviewing a community in order to document and describe their way of life. Language: shared knowledge of sounds, words, meanings, and grammatical rules used to send and receive messages. Phonemes: smallest unit of sounds that speakers unconsciously recognize as distinctive from other sounds; when one phoneme is substituted for another in a morpheme, the meaning of the morpheme alters. Morpheme: combination of phonemes that communicates a standardized meaning. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: idea that language profoundly shapes the perceptions and worldview of its speakers. Syntax: word order; arrangement of words in a language. Grammar: all rules you have to know to speak a language. Phonology: systematic origin of sounds in a language.