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WorksheetsLinguistic and Cultural Anthropology
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
Assimilation
Acculturation
Diffusion
Culture change
Which of the following best defines culture?
Innate, Shared and transmitted
Stagante, insular, and heritable
Taught, creative, and changing
Learned, shared and transmitted
Which of the following applies to language
It is arbitrary
It is innate
It is boring
It is a series of words
What is Code switching
knowledge of the language of a group of people is essential for the study of their social behaviour, culture and way of thinking
a set of linguistic features that characterizes the language production of a socially defined gender category
the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
the ability to achieve communicative goals in a socially appropriate manner
Communicative competence
Conventionality
Creoles
Dialect
the sense of touch in cultural life in its relation to the. human processes of testing and expressing reality and meaning.
Linguistic Determinism
Honorifics
Lexicon
Haptics
What is the difference between linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity?
Determinism is false and relativity is true
Determinism was coined by Sapir and Whorf and relativity was not
Linguistic determinism is just more aggressive Linguistic relativity
the smallest meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided
Morphemes
Phonemes
Pidgins
Proxemics
a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
Lexicon
Semantics
Pidgins
Sign, Signifier, Signified
Which of the following is NOT a Property of Language
Arbitrary
logical
symbolic
changes
