Understanding Language: Communication and Influence

In Malagasy, the ______ voice shifts the subject of the sentence from the person being addressed to the object that will be used to perform an action.

According to Ochs, Namaizamanga village in central Madagascar was an ______ and non-violent place, with no formal leaders and few differentiated statuses, where it was regarded as impolite to express direct anger, disagreement, or cricitism.

[Blank] anthropology is interested in more than the sounds and grammar of languages.

In the context of language design features, ______ refers to the ability of language users to monitor their own messages and rectify any errors they identify.

[Blank] is a linguistic feature that alllows communication about things that are not 'here' in the sense of absent or out of view, pas tor future conceptual or even imaginary.

The capacity of language to combine meaningless sounds to create new words or to combine words to create new utterances is called ______.

A special class of words called ______ are words in any language that sound like the thing they mean.

The study of language dealing with how meaningful bits are created and manipulated by the combination of language sounds is called ______.

Unlike free morphemes that can stand alone to convey meaning, ______ morphemes convey meaning only when combined with another morpheme, typically functioning as prefixes or suffixes.

[Blank], the rules in a language for how words are combined to make intelligible utterances, relies heavily on word order in English.

The ______ in Spanish makes the reference clear through the verb and its conjugation even when the subject is not included.

In English, nouns and pronouns are distinguished by ______, that is, their role in a sentence.

[Blank] refers to the rules or practices regarding how language is used in particular social situations to convey particular social information.

The language forms specialized to indicate the relative social status or relationship of the speakers is called ______.

Linguistic utterances that do not merely describe but actually accomplish a transformation in the social world are called ______.

[Blank] refers to a society's primarily oral and traditional knowledge which is “told” or “performed” in specific, appropriate ways.

Unique 'codes' including archaic or esoteric terms, formulas like conventional openings and closings, figurative language like metaphors, stylistic alternatives like rhythm or repetitions, and patterns of tempo or stress of pitch are all characteristics that set specialized or ______ apart from everyday talk.

[Blank] includes the vocal features that shape the delivery of spoken language, such as tone, pitch, speed rhythm and volulme.

[Blank]looks specifically at the use of personal space in interactions and how different societies maintain different degrees of physical ditance between members, depending on their relationship.

When two languages share a social space, the choice of a language could serve as a ______ or symbolic statement.

A ______ is is simplified version of a language that is usually used for limited purposes, such as trade economic interactions, by non-native speakers of the language.

Halliday (1976) coined the term ______ to refer to the most dramatic form of this behavior, a speech style used by individuals/groups in the performance of roles opposing or inverting the society outside of their group.

The ______ suggests that language mediates human thought and experience such that members of different speech communities think and experience differently.

According to Whorf, users of markedly different grammars are pointed towards different types of observations and evluations of externally similar acts of observation and hence are not equivalent as observers, must arrive at somewhat differently of the world.

Ritual languages, proverbs and riddles are all part of areas where language and ______ are interlaced with different cultural meanings.