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Ethnolinguistics: Analyzing the relationship between culture, thought, and language. Sociolinguistics : Analyzing the social functions of language and the social, political, and economic relationships among and between members of speech communities.
Cultural Linguistics is a related branch of linguistics that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. [4] Cultural Linguistics draws on and expands the theoretical and analytical advancements in cognitive science (including complexity science and distributed cognition) and anthropology.
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.
It does not seem likely [...] that there is any direct relation between the culture of a tribe and the language they speak, except in so far as the form of the language will be moulded by the state of the culture, but not in so far as a certain state of the culture is conditioned by the morphological traits of the language." [28]
The course aims to educate indigenous and non-indigenous students about the Lenape language and culture. [35] Language reclamation, as a subset of revitalization, implies that a language has been taken away from a community and addresses their concern in taking back the agency to revitalize their language on their own terms. Language ...
Digital anthropology is the study of the relationship between humans and digital-era technology and extends to various areas where anthropology and technology intersect. It is sometimes grouped with sociocultural anthropology, and sometimes considered part of material culture. The field is new, and thus has a variety of names with a variety of ...
Sociology of language is the study of the relations between language and society. [1] It is closely related to the field of sociolinguistics , [ 2 ] which focuses on the effect of society on language.
These social rules for which ways of using language are considered appropriate in certain situations and how utterances are to be understood in relation to their context vary between communities, and learning them is a large part of acquiring communicative competence in a language.