34 Questions
language is
a code of communication
phatic
keep communication channel open
australopithecus
Gracile: Afarensis (east) and Africanus (south). Lineage to homo, lived in forests. Robust: Paranthropus boisei (east) and robustus (south). Extinct, lived in savannah.
stereotypes are variables not associated in popular imagination with geographical or social dialects
False
heretoglossia is the coexistence of different linguistic varieties or registers within one single ‘linguistic code’
True
ferdinand de saussure studied structuralist linguistic and semiotics
True
communication is
transmission of messages from individual to another: verbal and non verbal
linguistic anthropology is a branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on the analysis of socio-cultural processes
True
holism is
view that we must study all aspects of a culture to understand it
What is meant by the productivity of human language
The ability to create an infinite range of understandable expressions from a finite set of rules.
culture is
All aspects of human life, changes through time and contact with other group, learned not encoded by biology
linguistic relativity is
Linguistic theory, field of ethnolinguistics (Whorf and Sapir)
metalinguistic is to speak about language
True
poetic
create things and words
referential is
speak about word
emotive is to create things and words
False
conative is to get people to do something
True
jakobson's model of communication
context, channel, sender, message and receiver
franz boas is known for his emphasis on culture and holism
True
roman jakobson is the founder of the formalist praque school of linguistic
True
participant observation: studying a ___ by ___ yourself in the ___ and ____
phoneme
smallest unit of sound to make distinctions of meaning in speech (sound has no meaning)
morpheme
smallest element of language that carries meaning
bound morphemes cannot stand alone but has lexical meaning
True
free morpheme stands on its own
True
syntax
rules and principles of a sentence
what is the study of distribution and patterning of speech sound of the human language?
phonology
what is the structure of words called?
morphology
the meaning of words and sentences is called:
semantics
semantic field is a set of words with a definite semantic affinity
True
semantic features are features that an ___ or a ___ has by comparison with other ___ in the world. ___ with other parts of the world. Can be noted in terms of ___ + or -
a mode of graded categorization. meaning of words has blurry boundaries because meaning is arbitrary
prototype semantic
Paying attention to context. Knowledge of cultural rules of enunciation. Purpose of enunciation
style of speech
styles of speech
pragmatics
Test your knowledge of linguistic varieties, structuralist linguistic studies, and semiotics with this quiz covering phatic language, australopithecus stereotypes, heretoglossia, and the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.
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