Week 7 Anthro Terms |Accusative (like English)||In ________
languages, the subject is the same regardless of whether the
verb is transitive or intransitive| |Ergative||In _______
languages, the subject is different if the verb is transitive as
opposed to intransitive| |Speech Community|| - is a community of
people who share a verbal repertoire and a set of rules and
norms for communication and interpretation of speech.| ("Rules
and norms" includes everything from intonation and vocabulary,
to body positioning and eye contact) |Communicative Competence||
-refers to what we know when we really know a language. | - It
means that we can recognize and use a broad range of registers,
and that we know the meanings of different communicative
practices used by most people in a given speech community.
|ethnography of speaking (or ethnography of communication)||the
type of ethnography that focuses on describing features of
different speech communities:| -includes descriptions of
explicit norms for communication -details