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Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Acculturation 

c)

Diffusion

d)

Culture change 

2.

Which of the following best defines culture?

a)

Innate, Shared and transmitted

b)

Stagante, insular, and heritable

c)

Taught, creative, and changing

d)

Learned, shared and transmitted

3.

Which of the following applies to language

a)

It is arbitrary

b)

It is innate

c)

It is boring

d)

It is a series of words

4.

What is Code switching

a)

knowledge of the language of a group of people is essential for the study of their social behaviour, culture and way of thinking

b)

a set of linguistic features that characterizes the language production of a socially defined gender category

c)

the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.

5.

the ability to achieve communicative goals in a socially appropriate manner

a)

Communicative competence

b)

Conventionality

c)

Creoles

d)

Dialect

6.

the sense of touch in cultural life in its relation to the. human processes of testing and expressing reality and meaning.

a)

Linguistic Determinism

b)

Honorifics

c)

Lexicon

d)

Haptics

7.

What is the difference between linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity?

a)

Determinism is false and relativity is true

b)

Determinism was coined by Sapir and Whorf and relativity was not

c)

Linguistic determinism is just more aggressive Linguistic relativity

8.

the smallest meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided

a)

Morphemes

b)

Phonemes

c)

Pidgins

d)

Proxemics

9.

a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.

a)

Lexicon

b)

Semantics

c)

Pidgins

d)

Sign, Signifier, Signified

10.

Which of the following is NOT a Property of Language

a)

Arbitrary

b)

logical

c)

symbolic

d)

changes