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Describe the various ways you can use language as a tool in research as well as in understanding language as part and parcel of culture.
 
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What is displacement?
 
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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, paralinguistics, non verbal language, and the cultural use of space.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
Displacement is the capacity of human language to convey information about a thing or an event that is not present.



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