Week 6: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Outline for Chapter 4:

Language and Communication  (90-117)

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


 
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Outline of Chapter 4 (88 - 117):
Language and Communication

The Nature of Language

The Sound and Shape of Language

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Grammar and Syntax

The Gesture-Call System

Kinesics

 

Paralanguage

 
• Voice Qualities
  Anthropology Applied:
Language Renewal Among the Northern Ute


• Vocalizations

Linguistic Change

Language in its Cultural Settings

Language and Thought

• Kinship Terms

Language and Gender

 

Social Dialects

 
Original Study:
The Great Ebonics Controversy

The Origins of Language
 

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