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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It originated from documenting endangered languages and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass any aspect of language structure and use. Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, social identity, cultural beliefs, and perceptions of the natural and social worlds. Structural linguistics treats language as an interwoven system where elements are defined by their relationship to other elements in the system. Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language use and social variables like gender, age, status, and ethnicity. Historical linguistics scientifically studies language change over time including language pre-history and relatedness, theories of language change, and the history of speech communities

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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It originated from documenting endangered languages and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass any aspect of language structure and use. Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, social identity, cultural beliefs, and perceptions of the natural and social worlds. Structural linguistics treats language as an interwoven system where elements are defined by their relationship to other elements in the system. Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language use and social variables like gender, age, status, and ethnicity. Historical linguistics scientifically studies language change over time including language pre-history and relatedness, theories of language change, and the history of speech communities

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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It originated from documenting endangered languages and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass any aspect of language structure and use. Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, social identity, cultural beliefs, and perceptions of the natural and social worlds. Structural linguistics treats language as an interwoven system where elements are defined by their relationship to other elements in the system. Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language use and social variables like gender, age, status, and ethnicity. Historical linguistics scientifically studies language change over time including language pre-history and relatedness, theories of language change, and the history of speech communities

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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.

    It
    is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered
    languages, and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass almost any aspect of language
    structure and use.
    Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, forms social identity and
    group membership, organizes large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, and develops a common
    cultural representation of natural and social worlds.

    STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS. An approach to LINGUISTICS which treats language as an


    interwoven structure, in which every item acquires identity and validity only in relation to the
    other items in the system. All linguistics in the 20c is structural in this sense, as opposed to much
    work in the 19c, when it was common to trace the history of individual words. Insight into the
    structural nature of language is due to the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who compared
    language to a game of chess, noting that a chess piece in isolation has no value and that a move
    by any one piece has repercussions on all the others. An item's role in a structure can be
    discovered by examining those items which occur alongside it and those which can be
    substituted for it. The structural approach developed in a strong form in the US in the second
    quarter of the century, when the prime concern of American linguists was to produce a catalogue
    of the linguistic elements of a language, and a statement of the positions in which they could
    occur, ideally without reference to meaning. Leonard BLOOMFIELD was the pioneer among
    these structuralists, attempting to lay down a rigorous methodology for the analysis of any
    language. Various Bloomfieldians continued to refine and experiment with this approach until the
    1960s, but from the late 1950s onwards, structural linguistics has sometimes been used
    pejoratively, because supporters of generative linguistics (initiated by Noam CHOMSKY) have
    regarded the work of the American structuralists as too narrow in conception. They have argued
    that it is necessary to go beyond a description of the location of items to produce a grammar
    which mirrors a native speaker's intuitive knowledge of language.

    SOCIOLINGUISTICS
    Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationships between language use and social structure. It
    investigates the correlation between linguistic (i.e., phonological, lexical, and grammatical)
    variables and social (i.e., gender, age, status, and ethnicity) variables. Since sociolinguistics is
    concerned with both linguistic and social aspects of language, researchers identify two main
    distinctions in sociolinguistic inquiry. Micro-sociolinguistics focuses on the social aspects of
    language, while macro-sociolinguistics examines how linguistic features can provide
    explanations for certain social phenomena. In other words, micro-sociolinguistics investigates
    how society influences the way people communicate, while macro-sociolinguistics studies
    society in relation to language.

    Historical linguistics, also called diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language
    change over time.[1]Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: [2]
    1. to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages
    2. to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping
    them into language families (comparative linguistics)
    3. to develop general theories about how and why language changes
    4. to describe the history of speech communities
    5. to study the history of words, i.e. etymology

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