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Lexical Gaps and Cultural Influences in Vocabulary

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Lexical Gaps and Cultural Influences in Vocabulary

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What intellectual and scientific task was of great importance according to the text?

Studying the relationship between culture and society

Explaining human variety in race, language, and culture (correct)

Comparing different languages

Collecting Native American vocabularies

What does the presence of multiple words in Inuit languages for different snow conditions reflect?

Linguistic determinism of snow-related terms

Cultural significance of varied snow conditions (correct)

Difficulty in describing snow in Inuit languages

Inadequacy in Inuit vocabulary

Who is acknowledged as the 'founding father' of American anthropology in the text?

Franz Boas (correct)

Native American academics

Edward Sapir

Thomas Jefferson

Which term refers to joy derived from someone else's misfortune that lacks an exact English equivalent?

Schadenfreude (B) Signup and view all the answers

What was one of the main purposes Thomas Jefferson had in collecting Native American vocabularies?

To study cultural prehistory (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the linguistic concept that aligns with 'cultural uniqueness'?

Linguistic relativism (C) Signup and view all the answers

Why did the study of the relationship among language, culture, and society become important according to the text?

Due to Edward Sapir's work in linguistic anthropology (C) Signup and view all the answers

What does 'lexical specialization' refer to in the context of language?

A large inventory of words specific to a particular domain (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which concept refers to the belief that no language is more complex or simpler than any other?

Linguistic equality (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the relationship between language and thought where language determines the way people perceive and organize the world?

Linguistic determinism (B) Signup and view all the answers

In Spanish, what grammatical aspect distinguishes 'el libro' (the book) from 'la mesa' (the table)?

Grammatical gender assignment (B) Signup and view all the answers

What does linguistic indeterminacy suggest about the distinctions a language makes?

They are arbitrary (B) Signup and view all the answers