ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mutual Intelligibility, Ethnolinguistics, Proxemics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Sig(cid:374)al: i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)ctive sou(cid:374)d or gesture; (cid:858)(cid:374)atural or self-evident meaning. Innate predisposition to learn language but language itself if learned. Dialect: varied form by regions, occupation, social class; mutually intelligible. Pidgin: simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common (for example to trade goods, mixes up 2/3 languages) Creole: stable language developed from pidgin; first language of children of pidgin speakers. Displacement (e. g. lying ulti(cid:373)ate for of displace(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895) (cid:894)you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t have to have the physical object) Proxemics (culturally defined distances, maintained between people in their interactions) Study of the structure and use of language as it related to social settings (cid:858)eth(cid:374)ography of speaki(cid:374)g(cid:859) Style: selection of linguistic forms to convey social or artistic meaning (e. g. formal/informal forms of address. Code switching: when people switch between dialects (ex english and french) Gendered differences (style, content, proxemics, kinesics: e. g. gendered vocabularies; verbs (japanese, gender styles (d. tannen)