[Anthropology] Language - Review

What is performativity?

• the performance, an act of someone

• the functional power of language to make things happen.

What is language revitalization?

• the process of reviving an endangered or dormant language

• the dominance of language

What does Communication refer to?

• the form of language

• the transfer of information from a sender to a receiver.

Relativity and universalism are both ___________

• aspects of informal talk-back

• aspects of human language

In what ways is human language different from animal communication?

• complexity

• flexibility

• aspects of human communication made possible by unique human biological and genetic features

• all of them

What does the complexity of the language make it a powerful tool for?

• a. shaping human thought

• b. providing categorizes and metaphors for organizing the information about the world

• c. varying widely relative to local cultures

Which are closely entwined in the evolutionary development and contemporary diversity of human societies?

• languae

• culture

• language and culture

• army

what is language?

• a specific, complex, systematized form of communication

• not all communication is language

• a set of rules

• all of them

__________ are closely intertwined and shape and reflect social norms and power dynamics.

• gender and language

• language and communication

• communication and society