Language 1
Language 2
Anthropology
Symbolic Communication
Linguistics
100

Phonemes

The smallest classes of sound that make a difference in meaning. Phonemes are also categorized as speech sounds.

100

Morphemes

The smallest unit of meaning

100

Enculturation

The process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture. 

100

Kinesics

The study of communication by non-verbal means, including posture, mannerisms, mody movement, facial expressions, signs and gestures.  

100

Historical Linguistics

Study languages over time that includes extinct languages as well as the evolution and migration of languages.

200

Code-Switching

More than one language in the course of conversing.

200

pragmatics of language


rules for using language in different contexts

200

Language instinct

The belief that humans are born with an innate capacity for language and all human language shows evidence of a universal grammar. Language is unique to humans, produced by evolution, to solve the problem of communication among social hunter-gatherers

200

Organized sound that is created by voice, instruments, or body noises that convey meaning through poetry, song, or storytelling.

Music

200

Sociocultural linguistics

Study of the relationship between language and sociocultural systems, for example, speech behavior and miscommunication between male and female

300

Protolanguage


Language ancestral to several daughter languages

300

The semantic system


explores the standards by which people select particular words and expressions to convey certain meanings.

300

Primitive Art

The term used by the Western art world for the art of non-Western, "tribal" societies.

300

Paralanguage

Refers to all the optional vocal features or silences apart from the language itself that convey meaning.

300

Descriptive linguists

study the morphology of word, syntax, and meaning of sentences, as well as physical qualities (phonetics) and structure (phonology) of speech.

400

The phonological system

The standards for discriminating the differences in sound, intonation, and stress that are consistently associated with differences in meaning

400

The morphological system

Built up from combinations of languages, phonemes are the minimal units that carry specific meanings in that language. These minimal meaningful units are called morphemes

400

Permanent body modification and decoration

Things that we decorate our body with that cannot be removed, like tattoos, scarifications, permanent body changes (such as foot binding), piercings, and removal of body parts.   

400

Gesture/ (Body language)

Body language is a form of communication humans share with other primates. Body language uses subtle embodied messages to demonstrate emotions.

400

Linguistic Anthropology

Study of language whether spoken, written, or non-verbal (gestural) that allows anthropologists to better understand the human condition across time, space, and culture

500

Cognates

Words of different morphs that belong to different languages but have similar sounds and meanings.

500

Daughter languages  

Languages that share a common parent language

500

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

the idea that different languages create different ways of thinking

500

Call system

Vocal system that consists of a limited number of sounds -calls- that are produced only when particular environmental stimuli are encountered

500

Computational linguistics

is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions