Language is a fundamental property of being human. Linguistics, the study of human language, is one of the four branches of anthropology. Linguistic anthropology explores the dynamic ...

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 ...

The Linguistic Anthropology Research Lab (LARL) works on a range of topics that are at the forefront of linguistic anthropological research. Research conducted focuses primarily on understanding ...

Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), archaeology (the study of prehistory, human migrations, emergence of ...

In the first half of the course, students will be introduced to some key concepts in semiotic and linguistic anthropology and their place in the long tradition of thinking about language in ...

biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. In different colleges and universities, different departments may teach these subfields. At W&M, for example, linguistics is its own program.

A linguistic anthropologist and educational ethnographer with a particular expertise in how identities develop in human interactions, Wortham has conducted research spanning education, anthropology, ...

Our department embraces an integrated approach to anthropology and provides general graduate-level training in the four subfields: archaeology, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology.

the origin of knowledge, transitivity, negation, questions, classifiers and spatiality Language contacts, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, endangered status of languages Linguistic ...

Kira Hall is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology. She also has affiliated faculty positions in The College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) and the Department of Women and Gender ...

Eastern University has launched an innovative new Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology. This program is a full “four-fields” degree, including cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguistic ...

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language use in social life. Linguistic anthropologists study the diversity of the world's languages and the diversity of language use and other forms of ...