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Linguistics. 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 century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use. [1]
Ethnosemantics. Ethnosemantics, also called ethnoscience and cognitive anthropology, is a method of ethnographic research and ethnolinguistics that focuses on semantics [6] by examining how people categorize words in their language. Ethnosemantics studies the way people label and classify the cultural, social, and environmental phenomena in ...
Edward Sapir. Edward Sapir (/ səˈpɪər /; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist - linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Sapir was born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland.
Linguistics. The ethnography of communication (EOC), originally called the ethnography of speaking, is the analysis of communication within the wider context of the social and cultural practices and beliefs of the members of a particular culture or speech community. It comes from ethnographic research [1][2] It is a method of discourse analysis ...
Academic work. Discipline. Linguistic Anthropology. Institutions. University of California, Los Angeles. Alessandro Duranti (born September 17, 1950) [1] is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and served as Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA from 2009 to 2016. [2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, and its role in making and maintaining cultural practices and societal structures. [1] While many linguists believe that a true field of anthropological linguistics is nonexistent ...
Scientific career. Doctoral advisor. Gordon H. Bower. Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976 [1]) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. [2] She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of a National Science Foundation Career ...
Anthropology of kinship. Don Kulick (born 5 September 1960) [1] is a Swedish anthropologist and linguist who is the professor of anthropology at Uppsala University. Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden.