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
Linguistic anthropology examines the relationship between language, culture, and society. Through ethnographic methods and with an eye toward semiotic analysis, linguistic anthropologists at NYU explore how language and other communicative forms and practices partake in social life, politics, economics, cultural formations, and historical processes. Situating the study of language in its sociohistorical context enables us to elucidate systems of exchange, hierarchy, authority, contestation, and change. Topics of particular interest include linguistic nationalism, multilingualism, racializing discourse, literacy and education, multimodal interaction, technologically-enhanced communication, and post-/colonial language policy and law. NYU faculty and students are part of the New York Linguistic Anthropology Working Group (NYLAWG), which facilitates intellectual exchanges about anthropological perspectives on language.