ANTH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Participant Observation, Ethnography

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Elle Shoreman-Ouimet

Document Summary

The study of human language in the past and the present. Focuses on the interrelationships among language and other aspects of a people"s culture. (e. g. how is language used in social contexts, and what styles of speech do people use?) Those who analyze languages and their component parts: historic linguists . Those who study how language changes over time within a culture and how languages travel across cultures: sociolinguists . Those who study language in its social and cultural contexts. The study of people"s communities, behaviors, beliefs, and institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and play together. Studies the way of life of contemporary and historically recent human populations. Involves the use of first hand fieldwork: observing and interviewing members of a society, region, or community in order to describe their contemporary way of life. Often results in a report, or an ethnography, detailing how a human population lives: participant observation .