Mid-term

Question 1

anthropological linguistics

Answer 1

the study of language and its relation to culture.

Question 2

anthropological theory

Answer 2

A proposition about which aspects of culture are critical that has been studied and generally accepted.

Question 3

cardinal number

Answer 3

whole real numbers

Question 4

conventional comunication

Answer 4

quotable gestures, sign language, spoken language and vocalization.

Question 5

What are the three coordinate systems?

Answer 5

relative, absolute, and objective centered intrinsic system.

Question 6

relative coordinate system

Answer 6

The location of an object is expressed in relation to both the viewpoint of the perceiver and position of another object. Thus saying “The cat is to the left of the house”

Question 7

absolute coordinate system

Answer 7

dealing with the cardinal directions, “The cat is to the south of the house”

Question 8

intrinsic coordinate system

Answer 8

The cat is in front of the house.

Question 9

creole

Answer 9

a fully developed language with origins in the combination of elements from two or more languages.

Question 10

cyclicity

Answer 10

the state of occurring in cycles

Question 11

deixis

Answer 11

a property of certain lexical items whose meaning requires contextual information to be complete.

Question 12

dialect

Answer 12

Variety of a language particular to a specific region or social group.

Question 13

mutually intelligible/uniteligable dialects

Answer 13

the first being a dialect that can be understood the second being that it cannot be understood.

Question 14

diglossia

Answer 14

a differentiation of two or more languages in regular use. using one type of speaking for work and another for home and friends.

Question 15

dyad

Answer 15

a group of two people who can be linked for any reason.

Question 16

ebonics

Answer 16

another way of saying african American Vernacular English.

Question 17

ethnocentrism

Answer 17

judging other cultures from the perspective of one’s own culture.

Question 18

ethnography

Answer 18

The systematic study of people and cultures.

Question 19

gesture calls

Answer 19

A type of signals used by (and common to) all of humanity as a mode of secondary communication.

Question 20

grammar

Answer 20

the whole system and structure of any language , usually consisting of syntax, morphology, and sometimes phonology and semantics.

Question 21

Grammatical Categories

Answer 21

Grammatical Categories
Properties of items within the grammar of a language
Example: plurality, gender, tense, voice

Question 22

Iconicity

Answer 22

a physical sign whose form resembles its meaning in some way”

Question 23

inflected

Answer 23

of a word to express a particular grammatical function or attribute. Such as the mood, person, number, case, and or gender.

Question 24

intonation

Answer 24

Change of pitch in someone’s voice, used to convey different tones or emphasize certain words in a sentence.

Question 25

Intra-sentential code switching

Answer 25

the alternation in a single discourse between two languages, where the switching occurs within a sentence."

Question 26

morphology

Answer 26

the study of the forms of words

Question 27

phonology

Answer 27

the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.

Question 28

semantics

Answer 28

branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning