ANTH 493: Linguistic Anthropology

How might Gender, Ethnicity, and Class influence language?
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Here are the overheads for Salzmann Ch 10
Language, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class (Ch 10)

Overheads for Chapter 9 presentation. What is social context? How does a small, autonomous culture compare to our own global technologically driven culture? Contrast the society of the Wanano (in a fieldwork paper present by Chris Stenzel of the University of Colorado) with our society.

Ch 8 Language in Social Context

Here is the overhead for chapter eight: Language Variation

The overhead covers idiolect, and the Wikipedia definition has a brief note about the use of idiolect in forensic linguistics.

The overhead covers dialect. Here is a New Yorker article, Talking the Tawk, about super famous linguist William Labov’s new work on American dialect. The article is mostly focused on Brooklynese, but toward the end it touches on Standard, another topic of the overhead. The article gets a little classist at the end.

Study of dialect in America should begin with the work of Labov and his team at the University of Pennsylvania. They produce the Atlas of North American English.

Wikipedia has a good discussion of pidgin and creole. It includes a link to the Wikipedia page on Nicaraguan Sign Language, which begins, “before the 1970s, there was no deaf community in Nicaragua.”

This short PBS video on Nicaraguan sign language, Birth of Language, touches on the concept of children speakers of a pidgin for minimal communication expanding the pidgin into a full language, a creole.

Here are the overheads for 11/12/07. These overheads concern synthesis of the text with your final projects.
Relating Final Projects to the Text

Skim through Salzmann Chapter 7. Focus on Grammatical Change, Specialization, Generalization, Shift, Regularization, and Borrowing on the overhead and in the text. Memorize the examples on the overhead. The overhead is posted as a pdf here.
Language Through Time Overhead

Read Salzmann Chapter 6 and refer to Nova “In Search of the First Language”. The course overhead for 11/05/07 is attached as a pdf here.
Language Origins Class Overhead

Inflectional morphology specifies obligatory grammatical categories. Derivational morphology changes the grammatical type of the word or builds new words. The class overhead is attached as a pdf here.
Inflectional and Derivational Morphology Overhead

Here at last is a pdf file of the course overheads up to about the middle of chapter five. Now that I have settled on this system of delivery, I will post the course overheads to the blog sometime after the class in which they are used.

ANTH 493 Linguistic Anthropology overheads