1. Understand the structure and nature of animal communication and how it differs from human communication.
2. You should be familiar with nonverbal forms of communication like gestures, expressions, and movements.
3. You need to be able to identify the key structures of language.
4. You must be familiar with the central argument of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and what researchers think of it today.
5. You need to know what focal vocabularies are and why they exist.
6. You must know what sociolinguists study. In particular, you must be familiar with gender speech patterns and how social stratification manifests itself in language.
7. You must know what B.E.V. is and how it compares to S.E. In addition, you need to be familiar with the debate regarding B.E.V. and public school systems.
8. You should know what historical linguists study and how it relates to anthropology.
