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?

<p>Schadenfreude (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>To study cultural prehistory (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Linguistic relativism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Linguistic equality (C)</p> 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?

<p>Linguistic determinism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Grammatical gender assignment (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>They are arbitrary (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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