Talk:Anthropological linguistics

message: The merging with linguistic anthropology was done with some blind cut-n-pasting.  I have absolutely no authority on either field so there I may have inadvertantly done something silly. -- Kowey 11:44, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: David Nettle, in Linguistic Diversity (1998), notes "the amazing fact that the map of language density in the world is the same as the map of species diversity: i.e. where there are more species per unit of area, there will be more languages too." Thus to increase linguistic adaptation and respect for diversity may also be to conserve habitat and increase biodiversity.
This is most certainly bogus result – places with hot climate (with high biological diversity) used to be much more densely populated that the temperate climate zone (with lower biological diversity), which has seen population explosion only after developement of agriculture. As this have happened relatively recently (in linguistic scale), languages of their population can be traced to common origins, and the language diversity of temperate zone is substantially lower than that of other zones.
In cold climate, which has even less biological diversity, language diversity is even greater than in the tropics. Taw 21:30, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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message: someone split off Linguistic anthropology with an unwikified article saying it is different... I don't know... but, I figure I should link to it so that someone can look. gren グレン 22:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Linguistic anthropology]] 

message: I don't believe the distinction between anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology can be upheld in its current form. The distinction as it is written now is a distinction of the term "anthropological linguistics" as used in american linguistics in the early 20th century - but this term is now antiquated and the field of study is simply called Linguistics. The term anthropological linguistics as it is used now adays is mostly used almost synonymously with what is called linguistic anthropology in the present article - that is the sudy of human behavior and culture through language. (see for example William Foleys introduction to Anthropological linguistics). BAsically I propose that thevtwo articles be merged and completely rewritten.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 10:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[Linguistic anthropology]]

message: Just a high five for breaking this topic out and making it more than a stub!Levalley (talk) 00:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Good job!

message: This section is just a feature of human languages in general, and isn't especially connected with anthropological linguistics. It was added to this article when moved from the article on cultural anthropology, where it was out of place as well. I'm including it below in case a better case for the section and way of integrating it into the article is possible. Ergative rlt (talk) 20:23, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Features of Language 

message: bibliography Helpful resources
"Codeswitching." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web.
Biber, Douglas, and Edward Finegan. Sociolinguistic perspectives on register. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1994.
Briggs, Charles L. Disorderly Discourse Narrative, Conflict, & Inequality. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Print.
Duranti, Alessandro. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
Sherzer, Joel. "Ethnography of speaking." Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments: A communications-centered handbook (1992): 76-80.
These may be helpful in expanding the information beyond what it is now. Any insight would be widely appreciated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miranda.Baranchak (talk • contribs) 03:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helpful expansion  

message: i did a research project on this topic in partnership w wikipedia through my university and this is what i have come up with. i didn't delete much from the previous article, but definitely added more.
Larnold624 (talk) 23:38, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  more info added 

message: I have started a discussion at  that might be of interest to readers of this page. The discussion concerns whether these two articles should be merged (although it is not—yet—a formal merger discussion as such), or if not, how to clean up the articles, which are problematic in a number of ways. Brusquedandelion (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Linguistic anthropology]] vs [[Anthropological linguistics]]