anthropological linguistics

noun

1. the study of language in relation to culture, including the recording and analysis of the languages of nonliterate societies.

Example Sentences

Caleb Everett, an anthropological linguistics professor at the University of Miami. 

From Scientific American

This is an area of anthropological linguistics, although it appears as if many cryptozoological fans confuse “crypto-linguistics” as a field that researches the language of cryptids.

From Scientific American