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12 Cards in this Set
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Language and Gender
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men and women have different tendencies to use language
- pronunciation - intonation - word choice - strategies for obtaining and maintaining the floor in a conversation |
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Gendered speech in Yana
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Women:
- last syllable missisng/vowel is whispered, also called "common speech" because it can be used for anybody Men: Men talking to men, men talking to mother in law, giving a formal speech |
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Kinship systems
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anthropology has long been interested in the different ways that human societies can classify family relationships
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Hupa Kinship Vocab
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Theres a lot more differentiation in words for relationships between people than there are in english in hupa
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Code talkers:
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Native American communications specialists in the US armed forces in WW1 and WW2
Used Native American languages to convey secret messages - languages werent understood by others and were structually complex and couldn't be decoded |
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Navajo code for code talking
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express english word through:
taking first letter (A) Then choose a word to represent it (Ant) Then choose the word in Navajo for that word (wolachii) |
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Why care about languages?
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Help us understand things about people in general
- variation in human language and cognitive capacity for language - how language plays a role in creating society |
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Aesthetic, Utilitarian, and Human Rights view of maintaining language
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Aesthetic: diversity and enrichment
Utilitarian: languages serve a practical purpose Human Rights: Languages are important to the people who speak them |
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Mayan Heiroglyphs (Native American writing systems)
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earliest inscriptions around 2300 YBP
logosyllabic writing system (a given character can represent a word, syllable, or both) |
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Winter Counts
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represents concepts in the culture
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Lakota winter counts
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represented the neighborhood they were from
each band had a winter count, and one picture was added each year to represent significant events |
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Cherokee Syllabry
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each character represents one syllable, one consonant, and one vowel sound
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