人类学哲学博士-语言人类学

语言人类学家与该部门的文化人类学家紧密合作，研究语言的使用和选择如何塑造社区和个人的文化和社会多样性。这项研究揭示了政治，经济和社会过程如何以交流实践和语言形式为基础，并随着时间的流逝而发生变化。我们采用各种人种学和社会语言学方法来记录语言的社会生活，并将这些方法应用于大型和小型社会，并与流动和流离失所的人一起在广泛的社会历史背景下理解语言。作为人类学家，我们还寻求加深对人类进化最重要遗产之一的理解，我们共同的语言和象征性交流能力以及我们在日常生活中以不同方式（书面，口头）使用语言的多种方式，为我们的发展
Working closely with cultural anthropologists in the department, linguistic anthropologists examine how language use and choice shape the cultural and social diversity of communities and persons.This research reveals how political, economic, and social processes are grounded in communicative practices and linguistic forms and subject to transformation over time. We adopt a variety of ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods to document the social life of language, applying these methods across large and small-scale societies and with mobile and diasporic peoples to understand language within broad sociohistorical contexts. As anthropologists, we also seek to contribute to a deeper understanding of one of the most important legacies of human evolution, our shared capacity for language and symbolic communication, along with our diverse ways of using language in everyday life in different modalities, written, spoken, signed, and face-to-face, among others.Topics of particular interest include social interaction, acquisition and socialization, multilingualism, language ideology, language contact and social change, linguistic minorities, language and political economy, and language and media.<br>The department is committed to comparative research that seeks theories that allow for the enormous diversity in human life. The program offers a holistic approach to the study of humans and exposes students to the traditional subdisciplines of anthropology while ensuring that they also receive intensive training in particular problems within one subfield.