Linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir argued that a language inclines its speakers to think about the world in certain ways because of its specific grammatical categories. (social forms and functions of language relationships between members of different speech communities) Linguistic relativity the idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of differences in their languages
Study how social context and cultural norms shape language use among a linguistic community A sentence may be grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical Accent a regional or social variation in the way a language in pronounced (e.g., an Alabama accent) Dialect a regional or social variety of a language in which the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation differ from those of the standard version of the language (e.g., African American vernacular English) Sociolinguistics the study of how sociocultural context and norms shape language use, and the effects of language use on society Indonesian language does not have any tenses Syntax the pattern of word order used to form sentences and longer utterances in a languageĮncompasses the order of morphemes within word to word order phrase structure rules. Ningerum language of papua new guinea has five tenses Grammatical elements learned in one culture context can feel quite natural and "normal" to a native speaker but unusual or illogical to speakers of other languagesĮnglish has three tenses: past, present, future The structure of words and word formation in a language
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