Anthropology 2250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grammar, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnography
11 Jan 2018
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Going in and out of the serious and non-serious. Ex. don"t make the same pun in the same conversation. Ex. setting up a joke before telling the punchline. But don"t manipulate all the rules at once. Simultaneous study of language structure and language use. Studying creativity we see more about how language works. Studying play or art looks at humanity differently, studying values, beliefs, taboos, and how they are addressed, how they are played with, and who plays with them. We learn what it takes to be good at playing with language. What characteristics of language makes speech play and verbal art possible, according to. What does sherzer mean by loose coupling? (p. 13) generating endless examples of speech play. How various components of language are all related but exist independently, The ethnography of speaking studies the relationships between language and culture and language and society from an ethnographic perspective.
