Foundational Linguistic Literature in Cultural Anthropology

Abstract

Although all human groups have a language in the narrow sense, it is possible to visualize and confirm the ability of human beings to learn each language from thousands of languages via understanding it from speakers of ​ other languages. Anthropologist shares the perception and understanding with linguists in the idea that human language is sufficiently distinct,  complex and extensive to require academic study per se, but this does not mean that anthropologists and linguists agree on what constitutes the nature of the language and how it should be studied, but for anthropology it occupies a wide range of human's  activity, thinking, and his activities with the surroundings, and it represents an important tool in the detection of the nature of the human being and the elements of its existence, as well as, they have a broad view of linguistic structures and words and perceptions of intellectual result of their work and stay involved with the culture of people under study. The objective of the research is to highlight the most important linguistic contributions in the field of anthropological study, while showing the importance in the discussion of the founding literature, which focused on the subject of language, especially the contributions of Professor F. Boas and the descriptive orientation at the level of American school and the contributions of Professor B. Malinowviski and contextual orientation at the level of British school.