Nurhasanaa Khairunnisa

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Assignment 14: Anthropological Linguistics

1. How do culture and language naturally change?

Cultural change is frequently a direct response to societal changes; shifts in the
power dynamics between various social groups, such as shifting alliances
between clans, result in a new, more prestigious assessment of the cultural
activities connected with these groups. Language change frequently serves as a
predictor of cultural change; as a culture changes, so may the language forms
and the social meanings they convey

2. What are the sources of cultural changes?

Human's intelligence and creativity

3. What makes culture and language always change in the history of human life?
Because human beings evolve over time.

4. How can you prove that culture and language in your society and environment
change?
through studying the past and artifacts like inscriptions that demonstrate how
different the language was in the past.

5. What are the examples of language change due to cultural change in your own
language?
Some words have changed as a result of technology's impact, which causes an
increase in the number of new words being entered while decreasing the
number of older ones

6. What is the language change?

when across time there are consistent changes to the characteristics and use of
language.

7. How do linguists explain how and why language changes?

Language is always adapting and changing to reflect how our lives, experiences,
and civilizations are evolving. We can adjust to new ideas, discoveries, and
technology thanks to linguistic changes. The way we use words might change
throughout time, in addition to how words themselves do.

8. What does language area mean?

The use of particular languages by various societies as a speech community is
known as the language area.

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