ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Kinesics, Nonverbal Communication, Paralanguage

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Displacement: the ability to refer to objects and events removed in time and space. Language: a system of communication using sounds or gestures put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules. Language is not just a system; it is a completely symbolic system. There is necessary connection between a sound (word) and the concept signified; different languages have different words for the same concepts. This means that the relation is arbitrary and symbolic; each word represents a concept. Symbols: sounds or gestures that stands for meanings among a group of people. Signal: a sound or gesture that has a natural or self-evident meaning. Linguistics: the modern scientific study of all aspects of language. Phonetics: the study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds: phonology: co(cid:373)pili(cid:374)g a(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tor(cid:455) of all a la(cid:374)guage"s sou(cid:374)ds a(cid:374)d developing a way to write them down in order to analyze and describe a language.