Directory of Linguistic Anthropology Resources

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Linguistic anthropology is the holistic study of language in terms of culture. Traditionally, it was concerned with non-Western language and culture. Today, the field embraces the anthropological study of language in all societies.

Subcategories

• Ape Sign Language
• Ethnic Groups
• Human Languages
• Linguistic Anthropologists
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Sociolinguistics

Resources in This Category

• Gesture, Language Origins and Right Handedness

  http://cogprints.org/6349/
  A paper by John R. Skoyles. Considers the implications of research on handedness in humans and chimpanzees. From the CogPrints Archive.

• Philadelphia Papers on Linguistic Anthropology

  http://www.udc.es/dep/lx/cac/aaa1998/
  Assembled papers on this topic from the 1998 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Various document formats.

• Society for Linguistic Anthropology

  http://linguisticanthropology.org/
  A special section of the American Anthropological Association. Organizational information and list of contents of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

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