Ant3620 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Semantics How we use a language to MEAN things; the meaning of words. Pragmatics How we DO things with language; the context in which a language is used; relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users; the rules for using language in socially appropriate ways. Implicature A way to use language to communicate indirectly. It is also scalar. (ex: "Black Lives Matter [too]" it is a silent implication) Language A continuous phenomenon; a series of chunks that, together, m...

EbonicsAfrican-American English regarded as its own language, rather than a dialect of English. Biological AnthropologyThe study concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. Cultural AnthropologyThe study of human societies and cultures and their development. ArchaeologyThe study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physica...

LanguageA symbolic behavior that includes speech, signing, and writing. It is the boundary between humans and other hominids. SemanticsThe realm of meaning; how we use language to mean things; uses a process called implicature CultureThe beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular society; way of thinking and behaving Grammar; GrammaticalityThe set of rules that explain how words are used in a language PhonologyThe study of the speech sounds used in a language; theory of sound chang...

Semantics How we use a language to MEAN things; the meaning of words. Pragmatics How we DO things with language; the context in which a language is used; relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users; the rules for using language in socially appropriate ways. Implicature A way to use language to communicate indirectly. It is also scalar. (ex: "Black Lives Matter [too]" it is a silent implication) Language A continuous phenomenon; a series of chunks that, together, m...

EbonicsAfrican-American English regarded as its own language, rather than a dialect of English. Biological AnthropologyThe study concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. Cultural AnthropologyThe study of human societies and cultures and their development. ArchaeologyThe study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physica...

LanguageA symbolic behavior that includes speech, signing, and writing. It is the boundary between humans and other hominids. SemanticsThe realm of meaning; how we use language to mean things; uses a process called implicature CultureThe beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular society; way of thinking and behaving Grammar; GrammaticalityThe set of rules that explain how words are used in a language PhonologyThe study of the speech sounds used in a language; theory of sound chang...

Kinesics and the study of body language

The different language communities

Final project submission - "Why passing the salt isn't really passing the salt"

The third article review including Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages by Nancy Bonvillain and The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John H. McWhorter