EST 200 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I Political economy continued from last class II Theoretical construct III Falsification IV Hypothesis V Operational Definition Outline of Current Lecture I Language II Kinesics III Phonetics IV Food Getting Current Lecture I II III Language a Is a system of sounds and gestures which when put together according to certain rules results in meanings that are intelligible to all speakers b Language and culture spoken by people who are members of the same society c Language is communication in symbol of information sound or gesture in which cultural tradition had given meaning as standing for something d Language began anthropologists and linguists believe w gestures after biological changes gave humans bigger brains and when humans began using tools Kinesics body motion used to convey messages a Across the world there is a similarity of facial expressions between humans and apes i Ex smiling laughing crying and facial anger b Language transmit information and needs a sender and a receiver Phonetics a The systematic study of the production transmission and reception of speech b Phonology an inventory of all its the language sounds and an accurate way of writing them down we discover the abstract rules that tell us which combinations of sounds are possible and which are not c Phone the smallest class of sound that makes a difference in meaning in a language These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV d Morph the smallest unit of a language that has a meaning e Sapir Whorfian hypothesis language is not simply an encoding process for voicing our ideas and needs but is rather a shaping force which by providing habitual grooves of expression predisposes people to see the world in certain ways it guides their thinking and behavior f Pidgin communication a language of trade and commerce does not have form and syntax gets the direction across g Creole a pidgin to which form and syntax has been added to form a complete language Food Getting a All living beings need food and water to survive b Different types of food getting technique i Food collectors sometimes called hunter gathers and teacher adds fisher people to that hunters gathers and fisher people All humans have obtained food for the majority of human historyas hunters gatherers fisher people