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 **Other reading:** Ahearn (2021b); Ahearn (2021a); Blommaert (2009); Moore (2011); Silverstein (2022); Thorpe (2015) **Other reading:** Ahearn (2021b); Ahearn (2021a); Blommaert (2009); Moore (2011); Silverstein (2022); Thorpe (2015)
 +## What is this a picture of?
  
 +{{ :3621:2024:2:zoom-song.jpg | A representation of language in use. Original source unknown (see Gurvich 2022),}}
  
-==== What is this a picture of? ====+[Alt text: "A piece of sheet music titled “Every Zoom call ever.” The words under the notes read “Let me shaare myyyy screeeeeeen. Can everyone see my screen?”]
  
-(Gurvich 2022) +## The study of language was part of the origin of anthropology
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-==== The study of language was part of the origin of anthropology ====+
  
 Boas conceived of anthropology as a field with four branches: biological (or physical) anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. This is what it means to say that anthropology is the holistic study of humanity. Boas conceived of anthropology as a field with four branches: biological (or physical) anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. This is what it means to say that anthropology is the holistic study of humanity.
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   * The color of water (Boas 1881; Helmreich 2011; see also Krupnik and Müller-Wille 2010)   * The color of water (Boas 1881; Helmreich 2011; see also Krupnik and Müller-Wille 2010)
  
-==== Structuralism and Chomskyian linguistics ====+## Structuralism and Chomskyian linguistics
  
 Saussure says that we are asking the wrong questions Saussure says that we are asking the wrong questions
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 Saussure to define a study of language as an autonomous object, langue independent of parole. The same goal inspired many others to create a structuralist linguistics, culminating in the work of Noam Chomsky (Stanlaw 2020). Saussure to define a study of language as an autonomous object, langue independent of parole. The same goal inspired many others to create a structuralist linguistics, culminating in the work of Noam Chomsky (Stanlaw 2020).
  
-==== A language is also a spectrum of variations ====+## A language is also a spectrum of variations
  
   * dialects   * dialects
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 Dell Hymes rebuts the competence–performance distinction in defense of a study of language variation and an ethnographic study of language as it is used (Stanlaw 2020). Dell Hymes rebuts the competence–performance distinction in defense of a study of language variation and an ethnographic study of language as it is used (Stanlaw 2020).
  
-==== A new model of semiosis beyond structure ====+## A new model of semiosis beyond structure
  
 Charles Sanders Peirce (note correct spelling) is another piece of this puzzle. Charles Sanders Peirce (note correct spelling) is another piece of this puzzle.
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