Linguistic Anthropology : is the study of how language interacts interacts with and shapes social...

1. Kinship terms : One way cultural values are reflected in language

2. Generation: daughter, mother, grandmother,etc.

3. Line: direct lineage - mother, son vs colateral lineage - aunt nephew

4. Indexicallity: the study of a sign pointing to an index

5. Gender: Brother vs Sister , Father vs Mother

6. Communicative competence: the ability to interact and communicate according to cultural norms.

7. Politeness: what is consider polite or impolite is considered culturally determined

8. speaker rules : We speak differently when chatting with a group of friends, than when meeting one-on-one with a teacher.

9. Turn-taking rules : speakers alternate turns fairly frequently , how long we wait to begin talking after another speaker has finished speaking is an aspect of speech culturally determined

10. tag questions: "It's kind of hot in here, is in it?"

11. adjacency pairs:"how are you?" is usually respond by fine\good\all right

12. Greetings : are sequences that frequently occur in the form of adjacency pairs