Openness | | patterned, repetitive experiences. Example: Christmas, occurs every year |
Displacement | | process by which ind. Develop the skills they need to interact and think/feel in an appropriate manner within their culture |
Arbitrariness | | expectation that something given should be repaid |
Duality of patterning | | association of linguistic signals with aspects of the social, cultural, and physical world of a speech community |
Semanticity | | there is no universal and necessary link between certain sounds and their meanings |
Prevarication | | - the patterning of human interdependence in a given society |
Linguistic competence | | organized set of rituals and myths that provide a way of thinking about human relationship to this world and gives moral rules to follow |
Communicative competence | | boundary that marks behaviors as play or as ordinary life |
Linguistic relativity principle | | a marker of struggles between social groups with different interests, revealed in what people say and how they say it |
Strong Linguistic determinism | | ancestress and her brother emerged from depths of earth. Also rank justified by dog and pig myth |
Pragmatics | | human ability to talk about absent or nonexistent objects and past or future events as easily as we discuss our immediate situations |
Discourse | | the study of language in the context of its use |
Ethnopragmatics | | determine how power is distributed in a society |
Pidgin | | sphere of human activity that involves the acquisition of things |
Creole | | play with some aesthetic representation |
Language ideology | | the processes by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin |
Perception | | interior experience that includes positions in a field of relational power |
Schemas | | a stretch of speech longer than a sentence united by a common theme |
Cognition | | language can be used to lie, as well as construct grammatically correct sentences that yield nonsense. Make statements or ask questions that violate convention |
Socialization/enculturation | | language has the ability to shape the way we see the world |
Worldviews | | change grammar to change patterns of thought and culture. Example: replacing he and she with a 3rd pronoun te would make English speakers treat men and women as equals. |
Self | | the mental process by which humans gain knowledge/ a tangle of connections between the mind and world |
Personality | | mastery of adult grammar |
Subjectivity | | 2 different levels to human language. Sound and meaning. Sounds are phonemes, meanings are morphemes |
Framing | | Afr. Am. Girls and their dolls, making the hairstyles look like their own |
Reflexivity | | a pidgin becomes one when passed on to a new generation |
Play | | the result of the process of Socialization/enculturation for an individual |
Art | | mastery of adult rules for appropriate speech |
Myths | | a ritual that serves to mark the transformation of an individual from one social position to another |
Trobriand islanders myth | | human language is productive, ability to understand the same thing from different points of view. Speakers of a language can create new messages but also understand new messages, |
Ritual | | a language with no native speakers. Develops in a single generation between members of groups that possess distinct native languages |
Rites of passage | | stories that recount how various aspects of the world came to be as they are |
Religion | | study of language use that relies on ethnography to illuminate the ways is related to social interaction |
Azande people of Africa | | gift giving by native americans |
Social organization | | relative integration of an individual’s perceptions, motives, cognitions, and behavior |
Economic anthro | | encompassing pictures of reality created by the members of societies |
Politics | | repetitive social practice, usually with its own schema |
Reciprocity | | thinking about how one thinks, reflection on experience |
Potlatch | | poison oracle, double checked to see who was a witch |