Language and Culture Quiz

What is culture?

• Everything connected to a nation or social group.

• A specific gender.

• A heritage.

• A lifestyle.

Kinship terms are how people identify different relatives.

• True

• False

The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis was created by

• Barney Sapir and Ernest Whorf

• Edwin Sapir and Beckett Whorf

• Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf

• Benjamin Sapir and Edward Whorf

Do people of other languages see the world differently?

• True

• False

What is a classifier?

• a word or affix that accompanies nouns

•  the rules used by machines to classify data

• a classification system

How many classifiers are there?

• 20+

• Both

• Several Hundred

What are address terms?

• Formal terms used to address people

• Informal terms used to address people

• A thing you write on an envelope

• Any word, phrase, name, or title used to address another person

The Honorable is a informal term.

• True

• False

What are informal terms used for?

• People of lower social stature.

• They are used to show affection.

• People who are not important to you.

• People you don't like.

Males and Females communicate differently.

• True

• False