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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the structural components of all languages.
- Understand the processes anthropologists use for uncovering the histories of languages and language groups.
- Explore the political implications of language contact, language interaction, and language use.
- Explore how subcultures and ethnicity groups use language as a form of resistance and expression. Understand the gender-based differences in language style within one culture.
- Understand how anthropologists and linguists think about African American Vernacular and other linguistic forms unique to one language community.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education