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Welcome to the Anthropology 4U blog, “A Beginner’s Guide to Anthropology!” In these posts, I write about the four fields of Anthropology for a general audience. And, I try to make the content easy to understand. So if you don’t know anything about Anthropology and you want to learn, keep reading! You can view the posts by category using the options below, and you can also view posts by tag. I hope you enjoy reading my posts and they teach you a lot about Anthropology. If you have comments or suggestions for future posts, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you! Hope you have a great day!
Linguistic Anthropology is the anthropological study of language. It includes 3 fields: Descriptive Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. Descriptive Linguistics involves describing languages and writing down spoken languages. Historical Linguistics looks at things like language variation and how language changes
What is language acquisition? Language acquisition is the learning of language. It can be broken down into two topics. The first topic is called first language acquisition, which means learning your first language as a child. We will explore this
In this blog post, I am continuing my series on “must watch” videos in Anthropology by sharing 56 “must watch” Linguistic Anthropology videos! For previous blog posts in this series, check out 30 “Must Watch” Videos in Cultural Anthropology: Religion
In addition to speech, humans also use nonverbal communication to communicate. And we actually convey more information through nonverbal communication than we do through speech. Now, there are whole books on nonverbal communication, so this blog post cannot possibly teach
Does language change? Many people don’t realize it, but all languages change over time. Here are some examples. Some words are being lost because they aren’t used anymore, such as the word “typewriter.” Some new words are added, such as
In a previous blog post, I talked about language and how it includes both sounds and gestures. But, the sounds of language don’t have to include just speech. Some cultures use whistles to communicate. This method of communication is called
In a previous post, I talked about the structure of language. Now, I’d like to talk about the interrelationships between culture and language. Culture influences language. And, language influences culture. Let’s start by looking at how culture influences language. How
In the last post, I talked about language–what it is, and some differences between human and animal communication. Studying language through Anthropology falls under the field of Linguistic Anthropology. Now, I’d like to talk about the structure of language, which
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