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LINGUISTIC ANTRHOPOLOGY
Linguistic anthropology is an interdisciplinary dedicated
to the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural
practice. It assumes that the human language faculty is a cognitive and a social
achievement that provides the intellectual tools for thinking and acting in the
world. Its study must be done by detailed documentation of what speakers say as
they engage in daily social activities. This documentation relies on
participant observation and other methods, including audiovisual recording,
annotated transcription, and interviews with participants.
As an interdisciplinary field, linguistic anthropology
has often drawn from and participated in the development of other theoretical
paradigms. Some of its own history is reflected in the oscillation often found among
a number of terms that are not always synonyms: linguistic anthropology,
anthropological linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Its main
areas of interest have changed over the years, from an almost exclusive
interest in the documentation of the grammars of aboriginal languages to the analysis
of the uses of talk in everyday interaction and throughout the life.
Linguistic anthropology is the
comparative study of ways in which language reflects and influences social
life. It explores the many ways in which language practices define patterns of
communication, formulate categories of social identity and group membership,
organize large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, and, in conjunction with
other forms of meaning-making, equip people with common cultural
representations of their natural and social worlds. Linguistic anthropology
shares with anthropology in general a concern to understand power, inequality,
and social change, particularly as these are constructed and represented
through language and discourse.
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