Anth 212 Exam #1
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language is

  • rules and principles of a sentence
  • a code of communication (correct)
  • all aspects of human life
  • the meaning of words and sentences

    • phatic

  • express emotions
  • speak about language
  • keep communication channel open (correct)
  • get people to do something

    • australopithecus

  • Gracile: Afarensis (east) and Africanus (south). Lineage to homo, lived in forests. Robust: Paranthropus boisei (east) and robustus (south). Extinct, lived in savannah. (correct)
  • Standing man, brain size of 45% to 1000cm3, sexual dimorphism reduced, complex tool kit (hand axes, stone chopping and scraping tools), increase of meat in diet, control fire.
  • Man ‘wise man’, brain size 1100 to 1400cm3, high forehead, presence of larynx, symbolic behaviour, burial rituals, technology, personal body ornaments, trading and sexual dimorphism.
  • Handy man, brain 600 to 800cm3, short arms, preferred rightgandedness, sexual dimorphism (non-monogamous), plant food, stone tools.

    • stereotypes are variables not associated in popular imagination with geographical or social dialects

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    heretoglossia is the coexistence of different linguistic varieties or registers within one single ‘linguistic code’

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    ferdinand de saussure studied structuralist linguistic and semiotics

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    communication is

    <p>transmission of messages from individual to another: verbal and non verbal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    linguistic anthropology is a branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on the analysis of socio-cultural processes

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    holism is

    <p>view that we must study all aspects of a culture to understand it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is meant by the productivity of human language

    <p>The ability to create an infinite range of understandable expressions from a finite set of rules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    culture is

    <p>All aspects of human life, changes through time and contact with other group, learned not encoded by biology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    linguistic relativity is

    <p>Linguistic theory, field of ethnolinguistics (Whorf and Sapir)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    metalinguistic is to speak about language

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    poetic

    <p>create things and words</p> Signup and view all the answers

    referential is

    <p>speak about word</p> Signup and view all the answers

    emotive is to create things and words

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    conative is to get people to do something

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    jakobson's model of communication

    <p>context, channel, sender, message and receiver</p> Signup and view all the answers

    franz boas is known for his emphasis on culture and holism

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    roman jakobson is the founder of the formalist praque school of linguistic

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    participant observation: studying a ___ by ___ yourself in the ___ and ____

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    phoneme

    <p>smallest unit of sound to make distinctions of meaning in speech (sound has no meaning)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    morpheme

    <p>smallest element of language that carries meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    bound morphemes cannot stand alone but has lexical meaning

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    free morpheme stands on its own

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    syntax

    <p>rules and principles of a sentence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    what is the study of distribution and patterning of speech sound of the human language?

    <p>phonology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    what is the structure of words called?

    <p>morphology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    the meaning of words and sentences is called:

    <p>semantics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    semantic field is a set of words with a definite semantic affinity

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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 -

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    a mode of graded categorization. meaning of words has blurry boundaries because meaning is arbitrary

    <p>prototype semantic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Paying attention to context. Knowledge of cultural rules of enunciation. Purpose of enunciation

    <p>style of speech</p> Signup and view all the answers

    styles of speech

    <p>pragmatics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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