Linguistic Anthropology Ever since I was seven years old‚ I’ve wanted to be a writer; more specifically‚ a poet. I think for my chosen profession‚ linguistic anthropology would benefit me better than any other field of anthropology. According to the Department of Anthropology of California State University‚ “Linguistic anthropologists are interested in how many languages there are‚ how those languages are distributed across the world‚ and their contemporary and historical relationships. We
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matter of linguistics What is language? SET /REPERTOIRE TOOL MEANS OF INTERACTION KINESICS FLEXIBLE Creative Rule-governed Arbitrary Discrete To acquire Fully-fledged Sound /Phonetics /Phonology Word/Morphology Sentence/Syntax Meaning/Semantics Tacitly Gender Breach Finite set of rules / infinite Linguist To be under oath NEOLOGISM GURU SCHOOLS OF LINGUISTICS School /Trend /Approach /Frame of Thinking Principles / Underpinnings The History of Linguistics is split
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Subject * Learner * Teacher * Context FORMAL STRUCTURE | V/S | COMMUNICATIVE STRUCTURE | Morphemes‚ sentences‚ rules | | Language is not possible without interaction.Language is meaningful. | Saussure: Parole‚ Langue | | Hymes: Linguistic competence context (what‚ whom‚ when) | Form | | Looks for the function of the language instead of the form | Alternative view: Problem PosingCritical systemIt gives real problems to childrenPermanent dialogue | Learner: * We see learning
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Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages‚ contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context‚ or language‚ like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. Interestingly even among applied linguists there is a difference of
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Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery BrusovPaper Corpus Linguistics‚ Lexicology and Translation Subject- Lexicology Faculty- IC Year - II Group - III Lecturer - K. SoghikyanStudent – Mane Nersisyan1586865360044Yerevan 2013 0Yerevan 2013 Introduction This paper includes information about corpus linguistics‚ its connection with lexicology and translation. The latter is the most important one and I am keen on finding and introducing something which is mainly connected with my
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What is meant by the field of linguistics? This introductory chapter concerns some dimensions of linguistics‚ which give us a general idea of what linguistics is‚ including the history of linguistic‚ grammar‚ and other disciplines of linguistics study. What does grammar consist of and what are the relationship between one and another? How many languages do human beings have the capacity to acquire? What other studies are made in recent centuries? Each of these aspects are clearly described‚ and other
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1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks
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What is psycholinguistics? http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~pfoltz/psy301/overheadsfirstthird.html The three primary processes investigated in psycholinguistics •Language Comprehension •Language Production •Language Acquisition Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science What will be covered in this class? • How do we produce and recognize speech? • How do we perceive words‚ letters‚ and sentences? • How do we learn and recall information from texts? • How can we improve
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suggestions. (October 2010) | Linguistics | | Theoretical linguistics | Cognitive linguistics Generative linguistics Quantitative linguistics Phonology · Morphology Syntax · Lexis Semantics · Pragmatics | Descriptive linguistics | Anthropological linguistics Comparative linguistics Historical linguistics Etymology · Phonetics Sociolinguistics | Applied and experimental linguistics | Computational linguistics Forensic linguistics Internet linguistics Language acquisition Language
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The topic of seminar: The main trends of Cognitive Linguistics in works of foreign (American and European) scientists Problem task: What principles of cognitive linguistics did G. Lakoff pay much attention at ? Describe his idea. Describe the study of spatial relationships and types of movement in the conceptualization of language‚ the concept of imaginative schemes and types of schemes. Describe the study of body based consciousness and language of humans. The idea of the concept of embodiment
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