ANTH 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Sapir, Linguistic Anthropology, Moe Williams
9 May 2020
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Subdiscipline of linguistics that focuses on speech performance and social variation in language use similar to and sometimes overlaps with linguistic anthropology. Sociolinguistics are interested in how speech varies depending on a person"s position in a social structure or relationship (gender age economic class) Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropologists attempt to identify, describe, and understand the cultural patterning of different speech events within a community. Language is a shared symbolic system used to communicate ideas, feelings or some other message. Language is the mental code that links what we want to say and how this is expressed. Language is a patterned structure there are grammatical patterns (grammatical competence) as well as sociocultural patterns (communicative competence) Phonetic studying what sounds a language includes (phones) Phonemic studying which of these sounds are meaningful (phonemes) Morphology* - study of the smallest unit of language which are grammatically pertinent (morphemes) for example, how plurals are formed. Semantics study of word meanings, the topics they cover.
