Questions tagged [linguistic-anthropology]
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Does the Cosmic Hunt myth imply the existence of a Proto-Human language?
I'm talking about this. Now I don't know much about linguistics, but this myth is supposedly 15000 years old, way older than Proto Indo European, for example. It's also present in a lot of cultures ...
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Is sociolinguistics the more modern form of early anthropological linguistics?
From what I saw, sociolinguistics was founded by William Labov, who is a chemist by training, so little to see with linguistics, and by people like the German Heinz Kloss and the Swiss Louis Gauchat ...
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How could you study “cultural differences” using corpora? [closed]
Anyone who’s traveled has come upon a sense of there being some “cultural differences”, but my mind is always seeking to systematize things, and I’ve wondered if there is a better way to collect tons ...
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