Language And Race

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

A division of humans who share certain biological features that distinguish them from other humans

Question 2

Racial formation

Answer 2

The process by which social, economical, and political forces determine the content and importance or racial categories are turned into social meanings

Question 3

Hypodecent

Answer 3

A system of racial classification in which a person of mixed ancestry is automatically placed into the category of less privileged

Question 4

One drop rule

Answer 4

A drop of blood from a race makes you that race

Question 5

Ascribed status

Answer 5

A status born into that never changes

Question 6

Buon aperencia

Answer 6

Lighter skin and straighter hair

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Pigmentocracy

Answer 7

A society in which there is a strong correlation between skin color and social status

Question 8

Race in South Korea

Answer 8

Ethnically pure

Question 9

Pure blooded nationalism

Answer 9

A traditional source of national pride. Seen as one nation, one culture, one people

Question 10

Ethnic group

Answer 10

A group of people within a larger society who claim a distinct identity on the basis of cultural characteristics and a shared ancestry

Question 11

Ethnicity

Answer 11

The degree to which a person identifies with or feels apart of a particular ethnic group

Question 12

Ethnogenisis

Answer 12

The evolution or emergence of a new ethnic identity over time

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Social context

Answer 13

The influence of specific social, cultural, economic and geographic factors in shaping particular events and experiences

Question 14

Canada

Answer 14

Most tolerant countries

Declared itself as the multicultural society

Question 15

Accent

Answer 15

Style of pronunciation that idiosyncratic to a person, group, or religion

Question 16

Dialect

Answer 16

Consists of an accent as well as vocabulary, grammar, and syntax rules

Question 17

Domestic accents

Answer 17

Varieties of native language spoken within a particular country

Question 18

Foreign accents

Answer 18

Distinct patterns of speech that arise when native of a particular language speak and non native language

Question 19

Phonemes

Answer 19

Smaller units of independent sounds within a language

Question 20

Morphemes

Answer 20

Smallest units within a language that have an independent, symbolic meaning

Question 21

Syntax

Answer 21

The grammatical ordering or arrangement of words into phrases, sentences, and questions

Question 22

Lexicon

Answer 22

The total vocabulary of a language

Question 23

Linguistic competence

Answer 23

A persons degree of ability to speak, comprehend a particular language

Question 24

Semi speaker

Answer 24

A person who possesses an intermediate degree of competence for a particular language

Question 25

Spain whorf hypothesis

Answer 25

Languages that a person speaks, shapes, influences the way they thing about and understand the words

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Prescriptive

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Attempt to regulate language by codifying and enforcing rules that dictate usage

Question 27

Description

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Language is a living evolving thing Studies as it's actually spoken and used in everyday use Used by sociologists, anthropologists

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Sociolinguistics

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The study of speech within its social context

Question 29

Prescriptive approach

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Attempts to regulate language by codifying and enforcing the rules that dictate usage

Question 30

Descriptive approach

Answer 30

Regards language as a living entity and studies language as it's spoken

Question 31

Black English vernacular

Answer 31

Dialect of U.S English often associated with communication style of African Americans

Question 32

Creole

Answer 32

Hybrid language

Question 33

Linguistic profiling

Answer 33

Drawing immediate conclusions about a persons character solely based on their speech

Question 34

Heritage language

Answer 34

A minority language that one has acquired or attempted to learn on the basis of their particular cultural identity