Chat with AIExam 4: Linguistic Anthropology: Relating Language and Culture
If you wanted to study how athletes and non-athletes used language differently on your campus, how would you go about finding this out?
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VerifiedLinguistic anthropologists, like cultural anthropologists, work directly with their informants or research subjects. Thus, much of their research involves fieldwork, building rapport with informants, and long periods of immersion in another culture. But the specific field strategy that a linguistic anthropologist adopts will depend on the kind of questions he or she is asking about the use of language in a particular culture.
How do language ideologies marginalize groups of people? Give an example to illustrate your answer.
(38) VerifiedThe concept of language ideology refers to the ideologies people have about the superiority of one dialect or language and the inferiority of others. A language ideology links language use with identity, morality, and aesthetics. It shapes our image of who we are as individuals, as members of social groups, and as participants in social institutions.
In England, the dialect one speaks marks you as a person of a very specialized social class. What is it about our regional or social dialect that allows people to classify us and view us through unflattering stereotypes?
(45) VerifiedAnother interesting way to think about phonology is to consider accents and dialects, which are regional or social variations of a single language. Sometimes the variation occurs between generations or among people of different social classes. Part of the distinctive sound of these forms of speech results from differences in "intonation," the pattern of rising and falling pitch, but careful analysis of the sounds usually shows that accents and dialects also have systematic differences in their respective sound systems.
How does understanding that men and women speak differently, even though they both speak American English, help us to understand patterns of social behavior?
(39) To what extent do our American English grammatical categories shape the ways we anticipate events that occur in the world around us? Consider, for example, how the use of the English pronouns "he," "she," "they," and "it" affects social relationships.
(41) According to linguistic anthropologists, why don't our pets actually understand a rudimentary form of English?
(36) Early anthropologists such as Franz Boas saw little use for language as a mechanism for understanding culture.
(41) An anthropologist who looks at speech acts as performances by recording narrative speech acts in the form of verses and stanzas rather than as prose paragraphs to capture the performative elements of speech is conducting
(46) What is the name for studying the way that language serves as a way to distinguish the way that people actually speak from the idealized ways that they are supposed to speak in a culture?
(38) How is communication between animals (call system communication) different from human language?
(42) Languages change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.
(39) Nineteenth-century European colonial powers often introduced their own language as the official language in places like sub-Saharan Africa because they viewed indigenous languages as socially inferior.
(34) The US government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to
(42) Today most anthropologists accept a ________ version of the linguistic relativity argument: the language habits of a community create tendencies to think about the world in certain ways and not others.
(31) The study of how people classify things in the world is called
(32) According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of
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