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SSM 109 Lesson 4

This document provides an overview of the relationship between language and culture. It discusses how language influences how people perceive and think about the world, and how culture is reflected in language. It also describes linguistic relativity and determinism. Key aspects of language covered include linguistic competence, performance, forms of communication, variations of languages, and the scope of linguistics including areas like phonetics, morphology, and sociolinguistics. The document emphasizes that language enriches human diversity and contributes to identity and knowledge.

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SSM 109 Lesson 4

This document provides an overview of the relationship between language and culture. It discusses how language influences how people perceive and think about the world, and how culture is reflected in language. It also describes linguistic relativity and determinism. Key aspects of language covered include linguistic competence, performance, forms of communication, variations of languages, and the scope of linguistics including areas like phonetics, morphology, and sociolinguistics. The document emphasizes that language enriches human diversity and contributes to identity and knowledge.

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SSM 109 SOCIO-CULTURAL

ANTHROPOLOGY

Week 5 Prelimary Period

King Arnold C. Satsatin


College Instructor
Language and Culture
Learning Objectives:
• To be acquainted on the sub-discipline of
linguistics and its relevance to the study of the
cultural dimensions of man.
• To understand the relationship between
language and culture and how people perceive
the world through language.
• To understand and appreciate the role and
function of language in culture.
Why culture and
language is related
to each other?
“Language itself
is a cultural
phenomenon.”
“Culture mirrored
in language”
“Language binds
people together”
Linguistic Relativism
•There are certain thoughts of an
individual in one language that
cannot be understood by those
who live in another language.
Example:
•A commonly cited example of linguistic
relativity is the example of how Inuit
Eskimos describe snow. In English, there
is only one word for snow, but in the
Inuit language, many words are used to
describe snow: “wet snow,” “clinging
snow,” “frosty snow,” and so on.
Linguistic Determinism
•Language determines how
individuals think and how they
see the world which is greatly
affected by their native
languages.
Linguistic Competence
•An idealized understanding of the
rules and construction of a given
language. This includes distinct
sounds used in the language, the
combination of these sounds and the
formation and interpretation of a
sentence.
Linguistic Performance
•The actual use of language as
an output which involves the
production and comprehension
of actual utterances including
appropriate use in social
context.
Communication takes on two
forms:
1. Verbal – This refers to communication in the
composition of words which can be spoken,
listened, listen, written and read.
2. Non-verbal – This refers to unwritten and
unspoken language such as gestures, body
posture and movement, facial expression,
eye contact, voice tone, touch, and visual
representation.
Human language is unique because
of the ff.:
1. Arbitrariness – The link between a linguistic
sign and its meaning is a matter of social
convention or a mutual understanding among
those adopting it.
2. Duality – The property of having two levels
of structures consisting of primary units or
meaningful words and secondary units or
meaningless sounds.
3. Creativity – animal languages do not
have phonemes or articulated and
differentiated sounds to produce infinite
set of words and sentences generating
new meanings.
4. Displacement – The ability to
communicate about things that are
physically absent or those that are
abstract concepts at the moment of
communication.
Variations of Human Langauge
1. Dialect
•A variation of language base on
regional or social speech
patterns.
2. Register
• A variety of language catered for specific
purposes and settings like business
language, diplomatic language, romantic
language, legal and medical parlance
and etc.
3. Archaism
•A type of language that is
considered antiquated or old-
fashioned such as “dial the phone
number” and “rewind the tape”
and “thou speaketh”.
4. Pidgin
•It is an unstable auxiliary contact
language arising from the need of
people to occasionally interact in
situations such a trade and
commerce in the absence of a
common language.
5. Creole
•A stabilized pidgin language that
becomes the base language of a
nature language such as that of
Chavacano, a Spanish base
creole language in the Philippines
mainly spoken in Zamboanga.
Scope of Linguistics
1. Phonetics
•The study of speech sounds
themselves which include production
of the speech sounds (articulation)
and the properties of the sounds
themselves (acoustics),
2. Phenology
•The study of the sound patterns
(phonemes) in language including
patterns of basic speech units
and the accepted rules of
pronounciation.
3. Morphology
•The study of the smallest unit of
meaning (morphemes) which include
internal structure and meaning of
words.
4. Syntax
•The study of the structure
(grammar) of clauses, phrases,
sentences with regards with the
interrelationships of words.
5. Semantics
•The study of linguistic meaning
(literal and figurative) with
reference or extension to the
objects it applies.
6. Pragmatics
•The study of ways by which
context or situation
contributes to meaning and
style of conversation.
Special areas of linguistics
1. Historical linguistics
• It is concerned with the occurring
changes in languages over the passing
of time.
2. Sociolinguistics
•It is concerned with the ways
language is used in society and the
correlations of social factors that
contribute to language use and
change.
3. Psycholinguistics
• It is concerned with the mental structure
and processes involved in language
acquisition, comprehension and
production.
4. Neurolinguistics
•It is concerned with brain activities
involved in language information
processing, storing and retrieving.
5. Stylistics
•It is concerned with the
interpretation of literary text from
the linguistic perspective.
“A language is
considered extinct when
it is not anymore being
spoken by any individual”
“Linguistic diversity
enriches our human
ecology
‘
“Languages are
expressions of identity”
“Languages are
contributes to sum of
human knowledge”

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