anthropological linguistics

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the study of language in relation to culture, including the recording and analysis of the languages of nonliterate societies.

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Family is an anthropological fact—a socially and culturally related fact.
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The philosophical investigation of our anthropological reality is the cornerstone of higher education.
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I realized that this guy, who is on the left edge of politics, has this career in linguistics.
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The fate of linguistics, therefore, turned on a simple twist of chance.
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He'd come to your child's Bar Mitzvah, but his interest in synagogues seemed anthropological.
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It becomes the end with linguistics the means, and this is the true relation between them.
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Our needs lie in the direction of the natural sciences rather than in the direction of history and linguistics.
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Anthropological writers, by an oversight, have dwelt on Oki, but have not mentioned Ahone.
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The one is anthropological dualism, regarding the soul as a distinct entity which comes to the body from without.
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Baudru Dsir was turned over to the anthropological service; they had never seen anything like him.
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