Tag: human development

• Linguistic Anthropology – An Overview

  

  A similar subfield to Cultural Anthropology is Linguistic Anthropology. Contrary to popular belief, linguistics is not the study of languages for translation or speaking purposes, rather it is the study of how languages evolve and function within a cultural context. Some subfields of linguistics include: Linguistic Analysis – the technical study of language Sociolinguistics – how language…

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  March 6, 2017

  Concepts in Anthropology

  anthropology, Culture, ethnography, evolution, human development, language, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, primates, sign language