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Terms and DefinitionsTerm | Definition | Anthropological Linguistics | Study of language (from anthropological view) | Ethnopoetics | A method of recording narrative speech acts (includes oral poetry, stories). This helps to capture the poetic format and other performative elements that might be lost if only written. | Ethnography of speaking | The study of how people use spoken language in a particular cultural setting. | Call systems | Patterned sounds, utterances and movements of the body that express meaning. | Philology | Comparative study of ancient texts. | Proto-language | A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages. | Cognate words | Words in two languages that have the same sound shifts as other words; indicative of a common linguistic ancestry. | Descriptive Linguistics | Systematic analysis and description of a language's sound system and grammar. | Morphology | The structure of words and word formation in a language | Sociolinguistics | The study of how sociocultural context and norms shape language use, and the effects of language use on society. | Linguistic relativity | The idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of differences in their languages. | Ethnoscience | The study of how people classify things in the world, by considering some range or set of meanings. | Creole | A language of mixed orgin that has developed from a complex blending of two parent languages and exists as a mother tongue for some part of the population. | Pidgin | A mixed language with a simplified grammer, borrowing vocabulary from on language but it's grammer from another. | Language ideology | Assumptions that people make about the relative sophistication and status of particular dialects and languages. |
Paraphrasing of DefinitionsTerm | Paraphrased Def. | Anthropological Linguistics | Study of language in anthropology. | Ethnography of speaking | Study of how people speak in cultural settings. | Ethnopoetics | Recording (poetic, narrative) oral traditions in a way that maintains the performative aspect. | Call systems | Patterned sounds and body movements that express meaning. | Philology | comparative study of ancient texts. | Proto-language | A hypothetical common language of two or more living languages. | Cognate words | Words in two language that are pronounced (sometimes spelled) the same way. | Descriptive linguistics | Analysis of a language's phonetics and grammar. | Phonology | Pattern of sounds in a language | Morphology | Structure and syntax of words | Sociolingustics | Study of how society affects/shapes language | Linguistic Relativity | People speaking different languages perceive the world differently because of the differences in their languages. | Ethnoscience | Study of how people classify things in the world. | Creole | The language developed from blending two existing languages. | Pidgin | Mixed language with simple grammar that borrows vocabulary from one language and grammar from another | Language Ideology | Assumptions that people make about the status of particular dialects and languages. |
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