The Study of Language

Descriptive Linguistics

Phonology

Morphology and Syntax

Historical Linguistics

Language and Culture

Ethnolinguistics

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Sociolinguistics

• Anthropology Around Us Language and Gender

The Complexity of Languages

Human versus Non-Human Systems of Communication

Silent Language as Part of Symbolic Communication

Kinesics

Proxemics

Cultural Time

Words

Silence

Artifacts

Summary

Study Questions