Cultural Anthropology

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Cultural Anthropology

• Linguistic Anthropology

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What is Linguistic Anthropology

• Linguistic anthropologists study the variation in
  human languages, the roots of human languages,
  and the role of language in shaping human thought
  and behavior.
• It is a subfield of cultural anthropology
• Main areas of study
• How language is used
• Relationship between language and culture
• How humans acquire language
• A Linguistic Anthropologist would look at
• Verbal language
• Non-verbal language

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Questions of a Linguistic Anthropologist

• Are all human languages of equal complexity? Are
  some languages harder to learn than others?
  
• How did language originate?
• Are all the languages of the world related to one
  another?
  
• Why is it so hard to speak a foreign language
  without an accent?
  
• Does language shape thought or vice versa?

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How Language Changes and Spreads

• How is language acquired
• There are 150 sounds in world language
• Babies can detect all of them
• We lose the ability to detect that as we get
  older
  
• Babies learn language through emersion in the
  language
  
• Socialization
• Language diffusion
• Language can change through contact with other
  culture groups
  
• Language can be invented (Swahili)
• Language can change through migration

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Gender and Non-Verbal Signals

• Females
• Claim less territory as their own
• Stand closer to each other in conversation
• Use more eye contact than men
• Use more facial expression and are generally more
  outwardly expressive
  
• More likely to return a smile when smiled at. In
  General Women smile more

• Males
• More likely to have a room at home (den,
  workshop, office) that is off limits
  
• Maintain greater distance from each other
• Use less eye contact than women
• Reveal less emotion through facial expressions
  than women
  
• Less likely to return a smile. In general, men
  smile less than women
  

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Gender and Non-Verbal Signals

• Females
• Take up less space - Women hold legs more
  together and keep arms close to body
  
• Stand farther from people who speak loudly
• Women use fewer gestures. Women use more
  gestures with men than with women. Women use
  more gestures when seeking approval.
  
• Cross legs at the knees or cross ankles with
  knees slightly apart.
  
• More likely to play with hair or clothing, and
  place hands in their laps

• Males
• Men tend to have legs apart at 10-15 degree angle
  and hold arms 5-10 degrees away from body.
  
• Men maintain the same distance whether people
  speak loudly or normally.
  
• Men use more gestures than women in general
  social situations. Men use about the same amount
  of gestures with men or women.
  
• Men tend to set with legs apart or stretched out
  in front and ankles crossed.
  
• More likely to use sweeping arm and hand gestures.

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Gender and Non-Verbal Signals

• Females
• Women do not necessarily interpret a mans touch
  as a sexual invitation.
  
• More likely to keep hands on arms of a chair.

• Males
• Men often interpret a womans touch as a form of
  sexual communication.
  
• Men rarely keep hands on the arms of chairs.

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Gender and Non-Verbal Signals

• Question
• Situation 1 A man and a woman sit next to each
  other on an airplane. Which most often uses the
  armrest in the middle?
  

• Answer
• In a study of 426 male-female pairs, 284 men
  claimed the armrest and only 57 women claimed it.

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Jazz Age Glossary

• All wet
• Applesauce
• Bees Knees
• Belly Laugh
• Berries
• Big Cheese
• Bull Session
• Bump Off
• Carry A Torch
• Cats Meow
• Cheaters
• Copasetic
• Crush

• Wrong arguing a mistaken notion or belief
• A term of derogation non-sense baloney
• A superb person or thing
• A loud, uninhibited laugh
• Anything wonderful similar to bees knees
• An important person
• An informal group discussion
• To murder
• To suffer from unrequited love
• Anything wonderful similar to bees knees
• Eyeglasses
• Excellent
• An infatuation with a person of the opposite sex

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Jazz Age Glossary

• Dogs
• Fall guy
• Flapper
• Giggle Water
• Gin Mill
• Goofy
• Hard-Boiled
• Heebie-Jeebie

• Human feet
• A scapegoat
• A typical young girl of the 20s
• An alcoholic drink
• A speak-easy
• Silly
• Tough without sentiment
• The jitters

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90s Language

• 404
• 411
• Bag On
• Check It Out
• Clueless
• Cool
• Da Bomb
• Dig It
• Dipstick
• Dis
• Dog
• Drop
• Drop Knowledge
• Dude

• Clueless or naïve
• Information
• To tease, nag or complain
• Pay attention
• Unaware naïve lacking knowledge
• Calm, fine, acceptable, neat exciting
• Great awesome extremely cool
• Do you understand?
• A stupid person
• To disrespect
• To criticize sharply or act like a jerk
• To give or tell
• To share information or experience
• Person, especially male greeting

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90s Language

• Get outta here
• Hang out
• Jam
• Rag
• Rap
• Rents
• School
• Totally
• For Real
• Trip
• Turkey
• Way
• Whats Up

• You must be kidding
• To relax or to gather
• To leave to go
• To tease, put down, criticize
• To talk or a kind of music
• Parents
• To teach a lesson to
• Very, very much
• True? Is it true?
• Unusual or strange, overreact
• Someone who is stupid or silly
• Yes, positive affirmation to no way
• Hi. Whats new or happening?

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Text Language

• BFF
• LOL
• BRB
• LMAO
• A3
• CMIIW
• FOMCL
• IYKWIM
• JJA
• MTFBWU
• OTTOMH
• PRW
• SBTSBC
• SMHID
• UGTBK

• Best friends forever
• Laugh out loud
• Be right back
• Laughing my _at_ off
• Anytime, anywhere anyplace
• Correct me if I'm wrong
• Falling off my chair laughing
• If you know what I mean
• Just joking around
• May the force be with you
• Off the top of my head
• Parents/people watching
• Same bat time, same bat channel
• Scratching my head in disbelief
• Youve gotta be kidding