linguistic anthropology
(anthropology, originally, and, chiefly, US) The branch of anthropology that studies language and language use.
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(anthropology, originally, and, chiefly, US) The branch of anthropology that studies language and language use.
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(Britain) cultural anthropology.
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Social anthropology is the British academic term for what Americans call cultural anthropology — the study of human societies, their structures, rituals, beliefs, kinship systems, and ways of organizing collective life. Where American cultural anthropology tends to emphasize culture as a system of shared meanings, British social anthropology has historically focused more on social structure and institutions. The distinction is largely a matter of tradition and geography: same rigorous ethnographic fieldwork, different theoretical flavor. Either way, it's the discipline that sends researchers into communities to live among them and figure out how people actually live.
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(especially, US) The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
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(especially, Commonwealth, rare, and, somewhat, archaic) Historical or comparative linguistics.
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English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.