When studying the language of an isolated culture, an anthropologist finds that it makes no distinction between genders either in pronouns or other parts of speech. If the anthropologist took a sociolinguistic perspective on this observation, she might argue that it encourages gender equality within the culture.
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This means that the language does not have separate words for 'he' and 'she', 'his' and 'hers', etc. Second, the anthropologist is considering this observation from a sociolinguistic perspective. Sociolinguistics is the study of how social factors, including Show more…
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