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Linguistic Anthropology by Paul Garrett LAST REVIEWED: 24 July 2013 LAST MODIFIED: 24 July 2013 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0051

Linguistic anthropology is a field of study devoted to the mutually constitutive relationships among language, culture, and society. Along with archaeology, biological anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology is one of the four traditional subdisciplines of anthropology in the American tradition. Most linguistic anthropologists have degrees in anthropology and identify primarily as anthropologists, though they may also have extensive training in linguistics. Linguistic anthropologists are committed to exploring and understanding the enormously varied ways in which humans use language, along with all of the other communicative resources at their disposal (such as gestures, eye gaze, spatial configurations, and material objects), to create, sustain, and shape the worlds in which they live. Linguistic anthropologists take as axiomatic the proposition that language is the primary symbolic medium through which humans apprehend, conceptualize, engage with, participate in, and thereby co-construct their worlds. The study of language and other aspects of communicative practice, broadly construed, are therefore considered to be crucial to understanding virtually all aspects of human society and culture, from the most intimate of face-to-face interactions to the workings of complex institutions to such global phenomena as transnational migration. Through their analyses of discursive formations, processes of symbolic domination, and numerous other language-mediated aspects of social life, linguistic anthropologists have contributed substantially to anthropological understandings of such issues as nationalism and transnationalism, ethnicity, social inequality, state formation, Gender and Sexuality , colonialism and postcolonialism, governmentality, capitalistic expansionism, and the full range of globalization phenomena. This bibliography focuses on linguistic anthropology in the American tradition and on material published in book form. Many of the field’s most influential article-length works have been reprinted in the volumes shown below under the category Comprehensive Edited Collections ; a great many more are to be found in the publications shown under the category Journals .

The works included here represent significant moments in the emergence and consolidation of linguistic anthropology as a distinct field of study over the course of the early to mid-20th century. Franz Boas, often called the “father” of American anthropology, made the study of language and language use central to the newly emerging discipline, as seen in his Handbook of American Indian Languages (see Boas 2002 ). Boas’s student Edward Sapir, and likewise Sapir’s student Benjamin Whorf, upheld this commitment and developed it in innovative new directions; their key works (see Sapir 1993 , Sapir 2005 , and Whorf 2012 ) are the basis for the “Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,” which has provided the orienting framework for successive generations of highly productive research agendas; its implications continue to be explored, discussed, and debated. Beginning in the 1960s—partly in response to the emerging generativist paradigm in linguistics—Dell Hymes and colleagues, particularly John Gumperz, took crucial steps to organize and consolidate a broad-based program of research in which language would continue to be regarded as, fundamentally, a social and cultural phenomenon, inseparable from the contexts of its use and the lives of its speakers. Among the clearest expressions of this programmatic endeavor are Hymes 1964 , Gumperz and Hymes 1972 , and Bauman and Sherzer 1974 .

Bauman, Richard, and Joel Sherzer, eds. 1974. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.

A broadly influential collection of studies from several of the founding figures of contemporary linguistic anthropology and allied disciplines. The chapters examine a wide range of culturally specific speech acts, events, and genres, ranging from greetings to jokes to narrative performances.

Boas, Franz, ed. 2002. Handbook of American Indian languages . Bristol, UK: Thoemmes.

Widely regarded as the first major work of linguistic anthropology in the American tradition, the Handbook begins with a classic, enduringly influential introductory essay by Franz Boas that makes a compelling case for the ethnographic study of the world’s languages. Chapters by Boas and many of his students and colleagues follow, each devoted to a particular Native American language. Originally published in multiple volumes over a period of several years, beginning in 1911.

Gumperz, John J., and Dell H. Hymes, eds. 1972. Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

This pioneering collection of essays, which proceeds from the assumption that competence in the use of a language involves sociocultural as well as linguistic dimensions, offered a theoretically and methodologically coherent alternative to formalist paradigms of language study and helped establish the ethnography of communication as an enduringly important area of scholarly inquiry.

Hymes, Dell H., ed. 1964. Language in culture and society: A reader in linguistics and anthropology . New York: Harper and Row.

A foundational, enduringly influential collection of writings on a broad range of language-related topics by a diverse group of linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, and others, from such pioneers as Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Claude Lévi-Strauss to Dell Hymes, John Gumperz, and other innovative scholars of the mid-20th century.

Sapir, Edward. 1993. The psychology of culture: A course of lectures . Edited by Judith T. Irvine. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Linguistic anthropologist Judith Irvine has reconstructed Edward Sapir’s lectures from fifteen sets of notes taken in three different years by various contemporaries of the pioneering linguist and anthropologist.

Sapir, Edward. 2005. Language: An introduction to the study of speech . New York: Harcourt, Brace.

An early treatise from one of the founding figures of linguistic anthropology, this book, originally published in 1921, comprehensively considers the formal and structural aspects of language as well as historical language change, contact-induced change, and the relationship of language to culture.

Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 2012. Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf . 2d ed. Edited by John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, and Penny Lee. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

Originally published in 1956, this is the most comprehensive edited collection of the writings of Benjamin Whorf, whose work on Hopi and other Native American languages during the first half of the 20th century gave rise to the enormously influential set of ideas that would come to be known collectively as “the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.” These ideas and their implications continue to be explored by linguistic anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others.

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If you have ever heard the term "linguistic anthropology," you might be able to guess that this is a type of study that involves language (linguistics) and anthropology (the study of societies). There are similar terms, "anthropological linguistics" and "sociolinguistics," which some claim are interchangeable, but others claim to have slightly different meanings.

Learn more about linguistic anthropology and how it may differ from anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Linguistic Anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the role of language  in the social lives of individuals and communities. Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication. Language plays a huge role in social identity, group membership, and establishing cultural beliefs and ideologies.

Alessandro Duranti, ed. "Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader "

Linguistic anthropologists have ventured into the study of everyday encounters, language socialization, ritual and political events, scientific  discourse , verbal art, language contact and language shift,  literacy  events, and  media .

So, unlike linguists , linguistic anthropologists do not look at language alone, language is viewed as interdependent with culture and social structures.

According to Pier Paolo Giglioli in "Language and Social Context," anthropologists study the relation between worldviews, grammatical categories and semantic fields, the influence of speech on socialization and personal relationships, and the interaction of linguistic and social communities.

In this case, linguistic anthropology closely studies those societies where language defines a culture or society. For example, in New Guinea, there is a tribe of indigenous people who speak one language. It is what makes that people unique. It is its "index" language. The tribe may speak other languages from New Guinea, but this unique language gives the tribe its cultural identity.

Linguistic anthropologists may also take an interest in language as it relates to socialization. It can be applied to infancy, childhood, or a foreigner being enculturated. The anthropologist would likely study a society and the way that language is used to socialize its young. 

In terms of a language's effect on the world, the rate of spread of a language and its influence on a society or multiple societies is an important indicator that anthropologists will study. For example, the use of English as an international language can have wide-ranging implications for the world's societies. This can be compared to the effects of colonization or imperialism and the import of language to various countries, islands, and continents all over the world.

Anthropological Linguistics

A closely related field (some say, exactly the same field), anthropological linguistics, investigates the relationship between language and culture from the linguistics perspective. According to some, this is a branch of linguistics.

This may differ from linguistic anthropology because linguists will focus more on the way words are formed, for example, the phonology or vocalization of the language to semantics and grammar systems.

For example, linguists pay close attention to "code-switching," a phenomenon that occurs when two or more languages are spoken in a region and the speaker borrows or mix the languages in normal discourse. For example, when a person is speaking a sentence in English but completes his or her thought in Spanish and the listener understands and continues the conversation in a similar way.

A linguistic anthropologist may be interested in code-switching as it affects the society and evolving culture, but will not tend to focus on the study of code-switching, which would be more of an interest to the linguist. 

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Very similarly, sociolinguistics, considered another subset of linguistics, is the study of how people use language in different social situations.

Sociolinguistics includes the study of dialects across a given region and an analysis of the way some people may speak to each other in certain situations, for example, at a formal occasion, slang between friends and family, or the manner of speaking that may change based on the gender roles. Additionally, historical sociolinguists will examine language for shifts and changes that occur over time to a society. For example, in English, a historical sociolinguistic will look at when "thou" shifted and was replaced by the word "you" in the language timeline.

Like dialects, sociolinguists will examine words that are unique to a region like a regionalism. In terms of American regionalisms, a "faucet" is used in the North, whereas, a "spigot" is used in the South. Other regionalism includes frying pan/skillet; pail/bucket; and soda/pop/coke. Sociolinguists may also study a region, and look at other factors, such as socio-economic factors that may have played a role as to how language is spoken in a region.

Duranti (Editor), Alessandro. "Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader." Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology, Parker Shipton (Series Editor), 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, May 4, 2009.

Giglioli, Pier Paolo (Editor). "Language and Social Context: Selected Readings." Paperback, Penguin Books, September 1, 1990.

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Anthropology may be classified as the study of mankind and linguistics focuses more upon the language elements of the existence of man.  As such, the concept of language or speech communication is what distinguishes mankind from animals. As such, the concept of linguistics is a subsidiary category of anthropology.  As linguistics has become a vehicle in the training of anthropologists there has been a certain level of trust between the two disciplines.  (Teeter).

Linguistic Anthropology – Identity Theory

It was Dell Hymes that coined the term ‘linguistic anthropology’ and termed the phrase an ethnography of communication.  One of the most concentrated areas of research focused around that sociological identity. Don Kulick was a linguistic anthropologist  who studied a village in Papua, New Guinea and examined a language called ‘Taiap’ that was not spoken anywhere but in their village.  This associated individuals with a personal sense of identity and belonging to a specific tribe of people. The research highlighted the personal autonomy of individuals.  Sheldon Stryker posed a theory of identity that was based upon symbolic identity in social groups (Burke, Owens and Serpe). Identity is considered to be more a cultural and sociological practice as opposed to that of a physchologic phenomenon. As such, it may be individually indexed through the use of labels. (Hall)

Anthropology has gained a great deal from the introduction of linguistics, particularly in the ethnography of speaking. Linguistic anthropology has helped to identify group memberships, facilitate both cultural and ideological beliefs and help in the determination of the logical order of a social world.

Works Cited

Burke, P.J., et al. Advances in identity theory and research. New York: Springer, 2003.

Hall, Mary Bucholtz and Kira. “Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach.” Discourse Studies, Vol 7 (2005): 585-614.

Teeter, Karl V. “Linguistics and Anthropology.” Daedelus, Vol 102 Iss 3 (1973): 87-98.

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It needs to be said that I have noticed from my personal experience that I have learned the language as a result of interaction with the environment, and I had my own understanding of particular words. I often analyzed the world around me, and communication with others was also essential. This is quite similar to the rapid construction of a grammar theory that is described by Ottenheimer, and he suggests that children at an early age understand the importance of language and use it as one of the ways to explore surroundings (258). Interactions with others were paramount because they shared the information, and it has helped me to develop my grammar when I was young. Also, Ottenheimer describes cognitive theories as a set of hypotheses that suggest that acquisition of language is related to intellectual development (257).

This perspective is also interesting because it is evident that children may remember some words, but they do not use them until they understand their meaning most of the time. It is also interesting that there are numerous instances when children learn several languages at once, and it is a tough task for adults. The critical period in development is essential because it allows children to remember enormous amounts of information at once (Kuhl et al. 256). It is also interesting that there are some differences between the language learning abilities of genders. One of the studies has shown that boys and girls utilize different regions of the brain when performing tasks that are related o language. (Burman, Bitan, and Booth 1349). This aspect should be considered during future studies because it may help to get a better understanding of language acquisition process.

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According to Ottenheimer, sign language is a method of communication that was developed for needs of Deaf community (115). The sign language that is most commonly used in the United States is American Sign Language (ASL). It can be said that it is somewhat related to English because some concepts are the same, but the structure of sentences and grammar are significantly different. Order of words is also not the same most of the time, and just one sign includes several meanings at once (Ottenheimer, 118). Facial gestures are also paramount because they are used to express the meaning of a particular symbol. It is important to note that I have encountered many individuals that used ASL, but I had issues with recognizing gestures most of the time because it is dramatically different from spoken English. It can also be noticed in some of the movies, and subtitles help to identify the meaning of some signs (Okrent par. 5). Also, I think that it needs to be promoted much more because one of the studies has shown that individuals that experience sign languages at an early age have a better learning experience (Morford et al. 41). I think that this method of communication is efficient and has enormous potential. It can be implemented in numerous software programs that recognize gestures. In my opinion, it is also interesting that there are dissimilarities between the usages of this method of communication in different regions of the world. Also, studies that are being conducted in this field are essential because sign language may need some improvement, and new technologies can address some of the issues that are currently present.

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Morford, Jill P. et al. “Effects of language experience on the perception of American Sign Language.” Cognition 109.1 (2008): 41-53.

Okrent, Arika. “This is What American Sign Language Looked Like 100 Years Ago.” The Week . The Week, 25 Apr. 2015. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.

Ottenheimer, Harriet. The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology . 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.

Burman, Douglas D., Tali Bitan, and James R. Booth. “Sex differences in neural processing of language among children.” Neuropsychologia 46.5 (2008): 1349-1362.

Kuhl, Patricia K. et al. “Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the “Critical Period””. Language Learning and Development 1.3-4 (2005): 237-264.

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Anthropology and linguistics share a common intellectual origin in 19th Century scholarship. The impetus that prompted the earliest archaeologists to look for civilizational origins in Greece, early folklorists to look for the origins of culture in folktales and common memory, and the first armchair cultural anthropologist to look for the origins of human customs through comparison of groups of human beings also prompted the earliest linguistic inquiries. This essay traces the relationship between the development of anthropology and linguistics down to modern times including the development of sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, culture and communication, pragmatics, metapragmatics and other mainstay topics in linguistic anthropology

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Linguistic anthropologists share a number of epistemological, methodological, and ethical concerns with scholars of Linguistics who are interested in documenting and describing historical-natural languages (be these endangered languages spoken by only a few speakers or hegemonic world languages spoken by several million people). However, despite the remarkable affinities that connect Linguistic Anthropology with a wide range of Linguistics sub-fields (such as Documentary and Field Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Applied Linguistics), practitioners within these related disciplines often behave as if they belong to radically distinct scientific communities. The aim of this course is to explore and question the reasons for this divide. Through a series of selected readings we will discuss the complex intertwining of scientific, historical, and political factors responsible for the emergence of these disciplinary boundaries and we will try to formulate possible grounds for dialogue and collaboration across Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. In order to do so the selected material will have two main focuses: 1) On the one hand, the readings will provide an account of the intellectual genealogy of Linguistic Anthropology by charting out its intersections and disjunctures with cognate disciplines such as Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Ethnographic Linguistics, Ethnopragmatics, and Ethnoscience. 2) On the other hand, the readings will address some key notions within linguistic and anthropological scholarship and will highlight the “theoretical unsaid” that often lies behind (or beneath) them. This endeavor will help shed light on how students of Linguistic Anthropology and Linguistics often employ similar notions (such as culture, context, language, competence, speech community, identity, and ideology), but give them very different meanings. By unraveling the process through which Linguistic Anthropology has come to be established as a field of research in its own right (#1) and uncovering the tacit assumptions lying behind some of its key notions (#2) the course aims at providing a compass to navigate in the fast growing body of literature concerning the relation between language, culture, and society.

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