Glossary of Anthro101FinalLanguage
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- Black English Vernacular (BEV)
- A rule-governed dialect of American English roots in southern English
Spoken by African American youth and by many adults in their casual, intimate speech
- Call System
- Limited number of sounds
Differs from modern language because at some point we humans combined calls
- 3 Characteristics of Language
- Transmission: Teaching communication to offspring
Productivity: Ability to use rules of language to create new expressions
Displacement: Ability to talk about things that are not present
- Semantics
- A language\'s meaning system
- Diglossia vs. Style Shifts
- Diglossia: High and low forms of languages
Style Shifts: Change in how you talk based on the context of a situation
- Focal Vocabulary vs. Lexicon
- Focal Vocabulary: Specialized set of terms and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups
Ex. Why eskimos have many words for snow
Lexicon: Dictionary containing all its morphemes and their meanings
- Kinesics
- Study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and expressions
- Phonemes
- A sound contrast that makes a difference
- Minimal Pairs
- Words that resemble each other in all but one sound
Ex. Pin vs. Bin, Seal vs. Zeal, Pin vs. Pan
- Reflective Approach
- Meaning thought to lie in object, person, idea or event in real world
Language functions like a mirror, reflects true meaning as already exists in world
- Intentional Approach
- Speaker/author who imposes his/her unique meaning on world through language
Private intended meanings are personal to us
- Constructivist Approach
- Neither things in themselves nor individual user of language can fix meaning in language
Construct meaning using representational systems
- Inner Sphere vs. Outer Sphere
- Inner sphere: Domestic space/neighborhoods
Blend of English and Spanish
Outer sphere: Public space = schools, courts, strangers
Clear boundary between English and Spanish
- Mock Spanish
- Think it\'s not racist, but humor
Indirectly relies on racist representations
Requires culturally understood, but unspoken stereotypes
- White Public Space
- Racialized by language
Invisible norm
Implicit negative stereotypes