Linguistic Anthropology

Linguisitc Anthropology focuses on human perception and communication, and draws a connection with how people percieve their world and the structure and formation of their language. Interesting information on this, and perhaps the most valuable that I have come across, comes from discussion in lecture about the deaf, and sign language. But I digress, that is another topic. Regularities between how people percieve and categorize or structure their world can be seen in many different cultures. A societies closeness to nature can be seen in the detailed descriptions of numerous plants and animals. Likewise, a society based on a more technological foundation will have language geard more specifically to that structure.
Linguistic anthropology originated from the endeavour to document endangered languages. Researches soon discovered how much could be learned from language structure and use as pertaining to particular societies and cultures. Social identies, the use of the narrative, and ideologies have all been further explained by linguistic anthropology, which has been and is used as an incredible tool to help further understand other areas of anthropology itself, as well as human history.