宏观语言学终结版.ppt

Macrolinguistics 宋丹丹 林亚丽 孔鲁晓 罗曼 张玲玉 Linguistics and anthropology语言学和人类学 Provided by 宋丹丹 1. Interdisciplinary links between anthropology and linguistics 1.1 Language is one of the research object of anthropology 1.2 Language is one of the research tools of anthropology 1.3 culture, as a anthropological concept, provide a more comprehensive description of language 1.1 Language is one of the research object of anthropology Anthropology: anthropology is recognized social science with two broad fields, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural: This term is taken from the technical vocabulary of anthropology, where in it embraces the entire way of life (obviously, language is a part there) of members of a community in so far as it is conditioned by that membership. So, language is included in the anthropology, which attempts to be all inclusive the study of human behavior in all places and throughout time, is one of the research object of anthropology. 1.2 Language is one of the research tools of anthropology 1.2.1 Each speech community lives in a somewhat different world from that of others, and that these differences are both realized in parts of their languages. 1.2.2 It is clearly possible to arrive at some description of a people’s culture without learning anything of their language, but one may surmise that a description of a culture that had involved some acquaintance with the language or languages of that culture will be in certain important respects more penetrating and revealing. 1.3 Culture, as a anthropological concept, provide a more comprehensive description of language A description of a language by someone who has made use of some knowledge of the rest of the culture of its speakers will provide a more comprehensive account of the working of the language within the community as a symbolic communicative system. For example, if the linguist wishes to deal at all in detail with semantics within his description, recourse to some c