Foreword / by A.L. Kroeber -- General introduction -- Orthographic note -- pt. I. The scope of linguistic anthropology -- pt. II. Equality, diversity, relativity -- pt. III. World view and grammatical ...

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 ...

How is the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election affected by language and culture? Experience and learn how anthropologists and linguists decipher political messages, and examine the words, gestures, tone ...

How the Patient Communicates about Disease with the Doctor / Peter F. Ostwald -- Psychological Research in the Extralinguistic Area / George F. Mahl and Gene Schulze -- Paralinguistics and Kinesics: ...

John Gumperz dedicated his life to language. A UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology, he died at the age of 91 on Friday in Santa Barbara. Gumperz was an intellectual and adventurer — a ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It investigates the subconscious and systematic knowledge that speakers of a language possess. Such knowledge allows them to communicate and ...

Anthropology Prof. Shalini Shankar is both a scholar with a deep interest in her research of sociocultural anthropology and a guide for students in her classrooms. Shankar published two books about ...

Why at all would we want to safeguard cultural and linguistic diversity you may wish to ask, when we talk so much about the global citizen? I will take you on a brief journey of thoughts. More than ...

In an earlier post in this blog, Why Did Language Evolve? I examined the relationship between language and mind in creating meaning. I proposed that meaning arises in the mix, from the complex ...

#StoriesThatInspire. Meet 10 activists who use digital media to strengthen and promote Mayan languages in Mexico. Photo by José Raúl Sánchez Pérez, used with his permission. Learn about the inspiring ...