ANTH 1003 Chapter : Ch 4 And 6 Anthro
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What can words tell us: first lady, african american. Language myths, language attitudes: who speaks the best x (english, Sub discipline of linguistics that focuses on speech performance and social variation in language us= similar to and sometimes over laps with linguistic anthropology. Sociolinguists are interested in how speech varies depending on a person"s position in a social structure or relationship. Remedy a gap-at time, no comparative ethnographies of how people use language. Hymes called for a structural analysis of communication in relation to speech that attends to patterns and functions of language use. Look at meaning in use - not just structural analysis of language, vocabulary and grammar. How community categorizes behavior and communication, including what a community defines as speaking. Also the other paralinguistic features of expression, such as tone, prosody, etc: ex. Spradley and mann"s article on asking for a drink. From spradley and mann (78): activities that are directly governed by rules for speaking .
