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| What is linguistic anthropology ? |
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| the study of speech and language within the context of anthropology or the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. |
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| what type of field is linguistic anthropology ? why ? |
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| an interdisciplinary field, because it relies on and expands existing methods in other disciplines, which are : linguistics and anthropology. |
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| What aims to provide an understanding of language as a set of cultural practices ? |
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| what does interpsychological mean ? |
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| what does intrapsychological mean ? |
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| What does the word "speakers" mean in this context ? |
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| the subjects of their study. |
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| What are "social actors" ? |
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| members of particular, interestingly complex, communities, each organized in a variety of social institutions and through a network of interecting but not neccessarily overlapping sets of expectations, beliefs, and moral values about the world. |
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| Linguistic anthropology is a system of communication that allows for what two types of represenations ? |
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| interpsychological and intrapsychological . |
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| What distinguishes linguistic anthropologists from other students of language ? |
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| their focus on language as a set of symbolic resources that enter the constitution of social fabric and the individual representation of actual or possible worlds. |
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| Linguistic anthropology examines language through ...? |
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| the lenses of anthropological concerns. |
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| What are the 3 anthropological concerns mentioned in the chapter ? |
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| the transmission and reproduction of culture ; the relationship between cultural systems and different forms of social organization, and the role of the material conditions of existence in a people's understanding of the world. |
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| How do linguistic anthropologists view language ? |
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| views language as a set of practices which play an essential role in mediating the ideational and material aspects of human existence, and hence, in bringing about particular ways of being-in-the-world. |
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| whose the only creatures that think about themselves thinking ? |
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| Linguistic anthropologists also focus on how language allows for and..? |
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| creates differentiation between groups, individuals, identities. |
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| what is considered to be the most flexible and most powerful intellectual tool developed by humans ? |
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| A given language does what ? |
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| allows its speakers to articulate what is being done by words in everyday life. |
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| In fact, without language , there are no ? |
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| there are no reported events |
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| To be an ethnographer of language means to ..? |
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| to have the instruments to first hear and then listen carefully to what people are saying when they get together. |
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| Bordieu argues that the world of any encounter is predefined by ...? |
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| broader social, gender, and class relations. |
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| what produces social actions ? |
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| who stressed the priority of our lived experiences over our rationalization and thematization of distinct social categories and norms ? |
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| What are the 3 major theoretical areas of linguistic anthropology ? |
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| performance, indexicality, and participation. |
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| the knowledge of a language that an ideal speaker has. |
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| the implementation of that knowledge in acts of speaking . |
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| what is an example of an arbitrary sound ? |
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| letters representing linguistic sounds. |
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| what's a natural sign example ? |
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| seeing smoke and immediately thinking it must be coming from a fire. |
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| what are indexes/indices ? |
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| signs that have some kind of existential relation with what they refer to. For ex: the nouns: this, that , those. |
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| kind of like which direction is this pointing more towards ? |
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| if a patient calls a hospital desk and speaks in french , it is a ____ of the patient's preference for French over English ? |
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| what are contextualization cues ? |
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| a subclass of indexical signs which let people know what is going on in any given situation and how interaction is expected to proceed. |
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| what is called the concept used to capture the fact that speaking is part of larger activities ? |
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| Among the other linguistic sciences, linguistic anthropology is the closest to what ? |
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