Anthro 4 Celebration 1 Answered
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linguistic relativity - Correct Answers ✅no individual is free
to describe nature with absolute impartiality and is
constrained to certain modes of interpretation -- observers
are not led to the same physical evidence to the same picture
of the universe unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar
slang - Correct Answers ✅generation-specific colloquial
lexicon, often associated with taboo topics that are creative
and actively changing -- it is used to establish or reinforce
social identity or cohesiveness within a group or with a trend
or fashion in society at large
language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅any ideas of
language are socially positioned, imbued with social political
as well as personal investments -- sets of beliefs about
language articulated by users as a rationalization or
justification of perceived language structure and use
indexicality - Correct Answers ✅a semiotic process that
connects language to surrounding context through a
relationship of contiguity and causation -- language points or
indexes things in the world and is always evolving in
meanings and connotation
dual indexicality - Correct Answers ✅racialization and
appropriation of slang "it makes me feel South Philly"
, Anthro 4 Celebration 1 Answered
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triple indexicality - Correct Answers ✅reflecting positively
on the borrower and negatively on the borrowee (lender), but
also to construct alliances among groups
style shifting - Correct Answers ✅alternating between two
or more languages or language varieties
cis heteropatriarchy - Correct Answers ✅an ideological
system that naturalizes normative views of what it means to
"look" and "act" like a "straight" man and marginalizes
women, femininity and all gender non-conforming bodies that
challenge the gender binary: system based on the
exploitation and oppression of women and sexual minorities
white public space - Correct Answers ✅a site where
whiteness is invisible and inaudible and everything else is
marked as the "other" (racializing hegemony)
erasure - Correct Answers ✅selective ignoring of often
"unruly" forms of variation that do not fit the models of
speakers/linguists (hearing what we want to hear)
erasure example - Correct Answers ✅when European
colonial linguists erase African languages in order to produce
linguistic maps analogous to Europe
Questions (Latest 2026)
linguistic relativity - Correct Answers ✅no individual is free
to describe nature with absolute impartiality and is
constrained to certain modes of interpretation -- observers
are not led to the same physical evidence to the same picture
of the universe unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar
slang - Correct Answers ✅generation-specific colloquial
lexicon, often associated with taboo topics that are creative
and actively changing -- it is used to establish or reinforce
social identity or cohesiveness within a group or with a trend
or fashion in society at large
language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅any ideas of
language are socially positioned, imbued with social political
as well as personal investments -- sets of beliefs about
language articulated by users as a rationalization or
justification of perceived language structure and use
indexicality - Correct Answers ✅a semiotic process that
connects language to surrounding context through a
relationship of contiguity and causation -- language points or
indexes things in the world and is always evolving in
meanings and connotation
dual indexicality - Correct Answers ✅racialization and
appropriation of slang "it makes me feel South Philly"
, Anthro 4 Celebration 1 Answered
Questions (Latest 2026)
triple indexicality - Correct Answers ✅reflecting positively
on the borrower and negatively on the borrowee (lender), but
also to construct alliances among groups
style shifting - Correct Answers ✅alternating between two
or more languages or language varieties
cis heteropatriarchy - Correct Answers ✅an ideological
system that naturalizes normative views of what it means to
"look" and "act" like a "straight" man and marginalizes
women, femininity and all gender non-conforming bodies that
challenge the gender binary: system based on the
exploitation and oppression of women and sexual minorities
white public space - Correct Answers ✅a site where
whiteness is invisible and inaudible and everything else is
marked as the "other" (racializing hegemony)
erasure - Correct Answers ✅selective ignoring of often
"unruly" forms of variation that do not fit the models of
speakers/linguists (hearing what we want to hear)
erasure example - Correct Answers ✅when European
colonial linguists erase African languages in order to produce
linguistic maps analogous to Europe
