Anthropology › Section F · Language and communication › Topic F.3
Language, community, and culture
People learn language from a community, and they use it to show which communities they belong to. Anthropologists study how children are raised into ways of speaking, how groups mark themselves through speech, and how languages carry a culture's view of relationships.
In this topic
- Words only insiders get
- Acquisition and socialisation
- Different ways to raise a speaker
- Language ideologies
- Speech communities
- Dialects and vernaculars
- Code-switching
- How language carries culture
- Worked example: a switch in Nairobi
- Worked example: choosing a Korean speech level
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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