Anthropological Linguistics

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<jats:p> Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or <jats:italic>semiotic</jats:italic> practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or permanent social groups. Such semiotic practices are underpinned by abilities and conventions at three levels: individual‐cognitive, interpersonal‐interactive, and sociocultural‐institutional, and the breadth of anthropological linguistics results from the fact that it conducts studies at all three levels, examples of which are presented in this entry. </jats:p>