Language in Action: An Open Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology (remixed by Debbie Klein)

by Debbie Klein

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Welcome! This course explores the central role of language and communication in social life. We will explore the foundational relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. We will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture, and power relations. We will investigate these questions: What is language? In what ways do we use it? Why does language matter?

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Publisher
Gavilan College
Subjects
Social Sciences
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Language
  7. 2: Language, Power, and Privilege
  8. 2.1: Language and identity
  9. 2.2: Language and offence
  10. 2.3: Derogation, toxicity, and power imbalances
  11. 2.4: The power of names
  12. 2.5: Pronouns, language change, and the grammar police
  13. 2.6: Linguistic law enforcement
  14. 2.7: Legally enshrined harms
  15. 2.8: Exercise your linguistics skills
  16. 3: Conveying Meaning
  17. 3.1: Theory of Non-Verbal Communication- Important Concepts
  18. 3.2: Theory of Verbal Communication- Important Concepts
  19. 4: Child Language Acquisition
  20. 4.1: Tiny, powerful language learners
  21. 4.2: When does language learning start?
  22. 4.3: Phonemic contrast
  23. 4.4: Early language production
  24. 4.5: The Language environment and the so-called word gap
  25. 4.6: Understanding word combinations
  26. 4.7: Syntax in early utterances
  27. 4.8: Developing word meanings
  28. 4.9: Growing up bilingual (or multilingual!)
  29. 4.10: Language milestones in the first two years
  30. 4.11: Exercise your linguistics skills
  31. 5: The Ethnolinguistic Perspective
  32. 5.1: Linguistic Relativity- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  33. 5.2: Lexical Differences Among Languages
  34. 5.3: Are You Familiar with Memes?
  35. 6: Language Variation and Change
  36. 6.1: What is variationist sociolinguistics?
  37. 6.2: Language varies
  38. 6.3: Language changes
  39. 6.4: Language conveys more than semantic meaning
  40. 6.5: Variationist methods and concepts
  41. 6.6: Sociolinguistic correlations - Place
  42. 6.7: Sociolinguistic correlations - Social status
  43. 6.8: Sociolinguistic correlations - Gender
  44. 6.9: Sociolinguistic correlations - Ethnicity
  45. 6.10: Exercise Your Linguistics Skills
  46. 7: Performance
  47. Back Matter
  48. Index
  49. Glossary
  50. Detailed Licensing