Linguistic anthropology, one of the four classic subfields of anthropology, seeks to analyze culture and society ethnographically and theoretically as they emerge through language and discourse. This ...

Archaeology focuses on the material remains of human societies from the remote and recent past with emphasis on reconstructing and understanding past modes of human cultural adaptation and change.

People make meaning in and through language. We collaboratively produce narrative accounts of experience with those around us, according to—or in resistance to—normative frameworks for communication.

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Introduction: Directions in the anthropology of Language / N.J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell -- Basics of a language / R.M.W. Dixo -- The item/system problem / N.J. Enfield -- Language and ...