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Anthropological linguistics

Index Anthropological linguistics

Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology, which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, and its role in making and maintaining cultural practices and societal structures. [1]

37 relations: Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropology, Analysis, Anna Wierzbicka, Anthropological theories of value, Anthropology, Anthropology (disambiguation), Chaîne opératoire, Charles F. Voegelin, Cliff Goddard, Dell Hymes, Edward Sapir, Eric P. Hamp, Ethnolinguistics, Good and evil, Humanities, Index of cognitive science articles, Index of linguistics articles, John Otis Brew, Language, Language documentation, Lifeway, Linguistic anthropology, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Linguistics, List of academic fields, Otomi language, Outline of linguistics, Outline of social science, Poqomchi' language, Respect diversity, Social science, Sociolinguistics, Sociology of language, Speech community, Timeline of Polish science and technology, World Oral Literature Project.

Alfred L. Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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American anthropology

American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept.

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Analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.

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Anna Wierzbicka

Anna Wierzbicka (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra.

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Anthropological theories of value

Anthropological theories of value attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Anthropology (disambiguation)

Anthropology, or Anthropologie in some languages, refers primarily to a science.

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Chaîne opératoire

Chaîne opératoire (French for “operational chain” or “operational sequence”) is a term used throughout anthropological discourse, but is most commonly used in archaeology and sociocultural anthropology.

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Charles F. Voegelin

Charles (Carl) Frederick Voegelin (or C. F. Voegelin) (January 14, 1906 – May 22, 1986) was an American linguist and anthropologist.

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Cliff Goddard

Cliff Goddard is a professor of linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

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Dell Hymes

Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, OregonNovember 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.

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Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was a German anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics.

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Eric P. Hamp

Eric Pratt Hamp (born November 16, 1920) is an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian.

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Ethnolinguistics

Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is a field of linguistics that studies the relationship between language and culture and how different ethnic groups perceive the world.

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Good and evil

In religion, ethics, philosophy, and psychology "good and evil" is a very common dichotomy.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.

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Index of cognitive science articles

Cognitive science is the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e.g. Luger 1994).

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Index of linguistics articles

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language.

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John Otis Brew

John Otis Brew, born March 28, 1906, was an American Southwest archaeologist that not only conducted extensive archaeological research, but was also a director at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Language documentation

Language documentation (also: documentary linguistics) is a subfield of linguistics which aims to describe the grammar and use of human languages.

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Lifeway

The expression lifeway is a fairly new technical term that is not yet in most general dictionaries and for which most textbooks instead still use "way of life".

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Linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.

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Linguistic Society of the Philippines

The Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Inc. (or LSP) is a learned society for linguists and language educators based in Manila, Philippines.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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List of academic fields

The following outline is provided as an overview of an topical guide to academic disciplines: An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.

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Otomi language

Otomi (Spanish: Otomí) is a group of closely related indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central ''altiplano'' region of Mexico.

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Outline of linguistics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language.

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Outline of social science

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to social science: Social science – branch of science concerned with society and human behaviors.

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Poqomchi' language

Poqomchi’ (Pokomchi, Poqomchii') is a Mayan language spoken by the Poqomchi’ Maya of Guatemala, and is very closely related to Poqomam.

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Respect diversity

The prerogative to respect diversity, often said to "begin with biodiversity" of non-human life, is basic to some 20th-century studies, such as cultural ecology, Queer studies, and anthropological linguistics.

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Social science

Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.

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Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language.

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Sociology of language

Sociology of language is the study of the relations between language and society.

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Speech community

A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language.

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Timeline of Polish science and technology

Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century.

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World Oral Literature Project

The World Oral Literature Project is "an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropological_linguistics

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