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Linguistic Anthropology is the "interdisciplinary study of how languages influence social life". It explores how language forms groups. There are three major disciplines to study in: documentation of languages, theoretical studies of languages, and relation to other anthropology fields. There are four major areas of interest. The first one is identity. This questions the socialcultural aspect of a language, such as why it is spoken in a particular culture over another language for instance. Another one of the four is socialization. Socialization is taken from how foreigners and new members of a society pick up the language and become members of the language community. Ochs and Schieffelin performed big research in the field by concluding that baby-talk was not universal. Ideologies is another topic discussing the nature of languages in the world. Social space is the final area. The citations and links tin this article were very smooth. Everything worked as it was supposed to do.

Language Acquistion was a much larger article. It appears to be a much more visited article. There were a plethora of links throughout the article. The citation references worked as expected in such a well-polished article. Looking at the citations, there are a lot of peer-reviewed journals, which shows great reliability. It does somewhat appear that the article has fewer citations the further down you read. This is okay, because these are the smaller portions of the article. Every paragraph does have a citation though. It is a very nicely formatted article.

Looking at linguistic history last, it is similar to language acquisition where the article is very polished. There are more holes in this article though that could be fixed. Some location still need citations and the talk page is asking for some edits and removal. There seems to be a lot of debate on the bias to the English language here. That is what the talk pag eis really discussing about fixing. Overall, the citations are still very reliable, and it is a pretty well formed article.

WEEK 5:

Back slang is not only restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. Many English speakers use diphthongs in replacement of vowels, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is with 'trousers' and its diphthong 'ou', which is replaced with 'wo' in the back slang version 'reswort'.