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What are language and culture considered as?
What are language and culture considered as?
- Barriers to social goals
- Resources for carrying out the business of social relations (correct)
- Means for individual expression
- Products of intellectual fashions
What are the three foundations upon which language and culture are built?
What are the three foundations upon which language and culture are built?
- Intellectual fashions, social intelligence, cultural norms
- Individual expression, societal expectations, historical evolution
- Cultural traditions, linguistic diversity, societal norms
- Social intelligence, relationship-grounded social group organization, historically cumulative frame of community-grounded conventions (correct)
What do language and culture inhibit and promote?
What do language and culture inhibit and promote?
- Intellectual fashions and societal norms
- Individual expression and creativity
- Historical evolution and cultural diversity
- The kinds of social goals we may have, and the means we have for achieving them (correct)
What do differences in scholarly traditions' view of language or culture arise from?
What do differences in scholarly traditions' view of language or culture arise from?
What do language and culture together yield?
What do language and culture together yield?
What term is used to describe the regular patterns and organized sequences of elements in the discourse of law?
What term is used to describe the regular patterns and organized sequences of elements in the discourse of law?
Why can legal documents be difficult for lay readers to understand?
Why can legal documents be difficult for lay readers to understand?
What is the significance of understanding the genre when reading a text?
What is the significance of understanding the genre when reading a text?
In the discussion between Charles Fillmore and legal authorities, what did Fillmore find the sentence from a contract to be?
In the discussion between Charles Fillmore and legal authorities, what did Fillmore find the sentence from a contract to be?
Why do lawyers have less difficulty understanding legal documents compared to lay readers?
Why do lawyers have less difficulty understanding legal documents compared to lay readers?
