Questions tagged [anthropology]
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How much do linguistic similarities and differences affect race relations? [closed]
Going to preface this that I think this is probably more of an anthropological subject, but I couldn't find a stack exchange for that, so this was my next best guess.
The thought occurred to me ...
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Have any linguists studied/described a language that was totally foreign to them?
Have any linguists studied/described a language that was totally foreign to them? ie the linguist has totally no idea of what the utterances and writing of a language mean.
How did they do it - ...
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Difference between sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics?
What is the difference between sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics? Is there more to it than the research methods (sociolinguistics being more survey and statistics focused, ...
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How could Proto-Indo-European not get dissolved into creoles during the Indo-European expansion?
First of all, I must say that I realise that this is not exactly a linguistics question so much as it is an anthropological, sociological, or historical question, but I suspect this might be the best ...
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Can the shift in grammatical usage of "an X-ese [person]" be explained linguistically?
While reading An Introduction to Information Theory by John R. Pierce, I was distracted by a linguistic artifact (on page 251 of the second edition):
We can tell our friends apart, […] but we find ...
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Languages Or Dialects Not Distinguishing Between Taste And Smell
Are there any languages or dialects not distinguishing between taste and smell?
Possible duplicate of this older and much more general question.
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