ANTH 210 Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture 1 Linguist definition 2 Class discussion about the movie The Linguistic The study of universal languages and individuals Outline of Current Lecture 1 Sociolinguistics 2 Language reveals social meanings 3 Ebonics 4 Historical Linguistics 5 Language Loss Current Lecture Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the study of language in a social context Flipping Sapir is when we whorf to argue Culture determines language as well as gender age social class ethnicity religion and occupation Ex kallawaya focal vocabulary centered on healing plants and rituals spiritual control and knowledge Language reveals social meanings Focal vocabulary is a set of words and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups They focal vocabulary words are sometimes dead give aways in American societies such as Hooters and it s male versus female meaning Whereas in America Hooters might symbolize one thing in another culture it might be represented as only a restaurant Ebonics The Black English Vernacular BEV or African American Vernacular English AAVE Literature tha represents ebonics is Them Children or the Oakland School System Response This can be researched under the Wikipedia page search Oakland School System Response and the site discusses the linguists views towards ebonics Historical Linguistics Historical linguistics is the subdividion of linguistics that studies language over time An example is Bantu Migration which happened 4 000 5 000 years ago They can use computer stimulations Language Loss Globalization reduces diversity as we saw in The Linguistic The role of boardingschools and state coercion are factors as well