ANT 3620 Language and Culture

Kinesics and the study of body language

The different language communities

Final project submission - "Why passing the salt isn't really passing the salt"

The third article review including Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages by Nancy Bonvillain and The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John H. McWhorter

The fourth article review including Amen and Hallelujah preaching: Discourse functions in African American sermons by Cheryl Wharry and The Logic of Non-Standard English by William D. Labov

The fifth article review including Conversational Code Switching by John J. Gumperz and Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico by Rose Nash

The second article review including Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology and Why People Gesture When They Speak

Preliminary description of final project - how we interpret language in different tongues

The first article review including Why Gossip Is Good for You by Robert Dunbar and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

Common types of messages we send in order to communicate