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    Ethnolinguistics studies the relationship between language and culture, examining how different cultures perceive and conceptualize the world and how this is reflected in their language. It emerged in the late 19th century with research on Native American tribes. Key theorists include Humboldt, who argued that languages differ as much as their speakers and that language embodies thought, and Sapir, who believed language influences cognition and worldview. Sapir's linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that language shapes how people think and perceive reality.

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    Ethnolinguistics studies the relationship between language and culture, examining how different cultures perceive and conceptualize the world and how this is reflected in their language. It emerged in the late 19th century with research on Native American tribes. Key theorists include Humboldt, who argued that languages differ as much as their speakers and that language embodies thought, and Sapir, who believed language influences cognition and worldview. Sapir's linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that language shapes how people think and perceive reality.

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    Ethnolinguistics studies the relationship between language and culture, examining how different cultures perceive and conceptualize the world and how this is reflected in their language. It emerged in the late 19th century with research on Native American tribes. Key theorists include Humboldt, who argued that languages differ as much as their speakers and that language embodies thought, and Sapir, who believed language influences cognition and worldview. Sapir's linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that language shapes how people think and perceive reality.

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    Ethnolinguistics

    theories, object of study and famous scholars.


    Plan:
    explanation of the term
    object of study (field related to ethnolinguistics)
    Theories and famous scholars
    Explanation of the term
    A field of linguistics which studies the relationship between
    language and culture and the way different ethnic groups perceive
    the world.
    Ethnolinguists study the way perception and conceptualization
    influences language, and show how this is linked to different
    cultures and societies
    Сonceptualization -
    1) formation a concept out of observations,
    experience
    2) forming or describing a mental picture of
    something;
    Object of Study
    Ethnolinguistics is the school of linguistics that studies the relationship between a 
    language and the culture of those who speak it, or between the 
    language and psychology of a particular ethnic group.
    Ethnolinguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in 
    the USA in connection with extensive ethnographic research that was 
    being carried out on Indian tribes of North and Central America. 
    Initially, ethnolinguistics sought to obtain data from the history of the 
    social relations of primitive peoples by studying corresponding 
    linguistic phenomena
    In the mid-
    20th century, linguists began studying other areas of the lexicon, as well as levels of lan
    guage. It was established that a close relationship exists 
    between linguistic phenomena, such as methods of structuring meaning, and nonlinguis
    tic cultural phenomena; this fact was incorporated in the Sapirian and Whorfian hypo
    thesis of linguistic relativity.
    Fields related to ethnolinguistics

    Descriptive Linguistics

    Historical Linguistics

    Sociolinguistics

    Cognitive Linguistics concepts


    Theories and
    famous
    scholars
    Humboldt

    the forerunner of ethnolinguistics

    - "The character and structure of a Language expresses the

    inner Life and knowledge of its speakers"

    - "Languages must differ from one another in same way

    and to the same degree as those who use them“

    - “Sounds do not become words until a meaning has been

    put into them, and this meaning embodies the thought of a


    The idea, also called linguistic relativism, is that
    Edward language is not just a list of words and grammar
    Sapir structures that give us rules for how to express our
    ideas properly, but that language essentially defines
    how we see things, and influences our cognitive
    processes. Linguistic relativism, also known as the
    Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, has been further divided
    into two versions, strong and weak, over time.
    Essentially, while the strong version argues that
    language determines cognition and thought, the
    weak version argues only that
    “No two languages are ever language influences cognition and thought.
    sufficiently similar to be considered Linguists today are in general agreement with the
    as representing the same social reality. weak version, and this has influenced several
    The worlds in which different linguistic experiments.
    societies live are distinct worlds, not
    merely the same world with different
    labels attached”
    Sapir suggested that man perceives the world principally through language. He wrote many
    articles on the relationship of language to culture. A thorough description of a linguistic structure
    and its function in speech might, he wrote in 1931, provide insight into man’s perceptive and 
    cognitive faculties and help explain the diverse behaviour among peoples of different cultural
    backgrounds.
    Thank you for your attention!
    https://unravellingmag.com/articles/ethnolinguistics/
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Sapir

    https://prezi.com/drmd6wdg4ht3/anthropological-linguistics-ethnolinguistics/

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/ethnolinguistics

    https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ethnolinguistics

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