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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Linguistic Anthropology''' β The study of language in its social and cultural context. * '''Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis''' β The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think (Linguistic Relativity). * '''Sociolinguistics''' β The study of how language varies by social class, gender, and ethnicity. * '''Speech Community''' β A group of people who share a set of norms and expectations for the use of language. * '''Code-Switching''' β Alternating between two or more languages or dialects in a single conversation. * '''Honorifics''' β Grammatical forms that indicate social status or respect (e.g., 'San' in Japanese). * '''Language Socialization''' β The process by which children learn to speak and act according to their culture's norms. * '''Discourse Analysis''' β The study of how language is used in "real-life" texts and conversations to produce meaning. * '''Language Ideology''' β The beliefs and feelings people have about a language (e.g., thinking one dialect is "correct" and another is "slang"). * '''Endangered Language''' β A language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to another language. * '''Pragmatics''' β The branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used. * '''Semantics''' β The study of meaning in language. * '''Pidgin''' β A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. * '''Creole''' β A stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin and has native speakers. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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