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week 7-tucker
linguistic anthropology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a system of communication based on symbols is called a | language |
| all languages are organized on the same basic plan in that | they take no more than fifty sounds and put them together in meaningful ways according to rules that can be determined by linguists |
| the modern scientific study of all aspects of language is | linguistics |
| the systematic study of the production transmission and reception of speech sounds is | phonetics |
| paralanguage is to speech as ___ is to position of the body. | kinesics |
| the following is a latin based language. | spanish, romainian, italian, portuguese |
| Kinesics is a method for notating and analyzing | any form of body language |
| Decriptive linguistics | "attempts 2 explain the features of a particular language at 1 time in its history" & " look at languages as separate system w/0 considering how they might b related 2 ea. other |
| a language family is a group of languages that | are descended from a single ancestral language |
| if the core vocabulary of 2 languages is compared by glottochronologists it is thought possible to determine ___ | how long ago the languages separated from each other |
| the term ___ is usally used to refer to varing forms of a language that reflect particular regions of social classes and that are similar enough to be mutually intelligible. | dialect |
| the very names for this dialect reflect the diversity of views.the following are used to refer to Ebonics. | African American English (AAE), African American Vernacular (AAVE), Black English (BE) |
| Black English | short history, logical rules of grammar, discourse practices cannot be traced, has an oral literature worthy of respect |
| a specialty within linguistic anthropology that has become almost a separate field of inquiry is | ethnolinguistics |
| although we are genetically programmed to speak what are speak is determined by our | culture |
| the first step in studying any language, once a number of utterances have been collected is to isolate the | phonemes |
| in north america scratching one's scalp, biting one's lip or knitting one's brows are ways of conveying doubt. they are also what linguists call | kinesics |
| this approach concentrates on the way languages function now, as if they were separate systems,consistent within themselves, w/o any reference 2 reasons for their development. | descriptive linguistics |
| proposed that a language is not simply & encoding process for voicing our ideas & needs but rather is a shaping force, which by providing habitual grooves of expression that predispose peo. 2 see the world n a certain way guides their thinking & behavior | Benjamin Lee Whorf |
| this branch of linguistics involves unraveling a language by recording, describing and analyzing all of its features. | descriptive |
| at least ___ percent of our total communication takes place non verbally. | 60 |
| specialist n this branch of linguistics investigate relationships between earlier & later forms of the same language older languages for developments in modern one's & questions of relationships among older language | Historical |
| when a person has the ability 2 comprehend 2 language but express herself/himself in only one, is known as ___ bilingualism. | passive |
| it has been suggested that the alphabet was invented about ___ years ago by Semitic speaking peoples | 4,000 |
| something that stand for soemthing else. | symbol |
| the scientific study of language | linguistics |
| how are language and culture related? | a person learns how to communicate through thier own culture--speakers of a partiuclar language tend to develop larger vocabularies to discuss those aspects of life athat are of importance to them. |
| The human brain and the anatomy of the mouth and throat make language a biological possibility. At the same time, languages are clearly cultural products embedded in meanings and behavioral patterns that stretch beyond individual bodies, space,and time. | biocultural evolution |
| what makes human language distinctive? | charles hockett: openness, displacement, arbiatrainess, duality of patterning, semanticity and prevarication. |
| grammar | set of rules that aim to describe fully the patterns of linguistic usage observed by speakers of a particular language. |
| A position associated ith Edward Sapir and benjamin Whorf, that language has the power to shape the way people see the world. | linguistic relativity principle. |
| pidgin? | a language with no native speakers that develops in a single generation between members of communities |
| what is an example of linguistic inequality? | AAE--African American English |
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