Anthro 4 Midterm Solved Exam
Questions and Answers (Complete
Practice Papers)
linguistic anthropology - Correct Answers ✅studies
language in its social and cultural context, across space and
over time
raciolinguistics - Correct Answers ✅how language is used
to construct race and how ideas of race influence language
and language use
language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅beliefs, or
feelings, about languages as used in their social worlds.
--ex. in US, powerful language ideologies link articulateness
with "standard" English with Whiteness
meta-language - Correct Answers ✅a form of language or
set of terms used for the description or analysis of another
language
linguistic relativity - Correct Answers ✅languages are
arbitrary systems; one cannot predict how they will classify
the world
--all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to
the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic
backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated
, Anthro 4 Midterm Solved Exam
Questions and Answers (Complete
Practice Papers)
linguistic functionalism - Correct Answers ✅languages
develop to deal with the distinct reality that surround the
speakers
standard language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅a bias
toward an abstracted, idealized, non-varying spoken
language that is imposed and maintained by dominant
institutions
--national standard is impossible since everyone speaks one
dialect or the other-->became a reason for limiting access to
discourse and discrimination.
--school, the media, the courts, corporate sector and others
promote standard language ideology in the USA.
--speakers of non-mainstream dialects who approve of the
standard language ideology find themselves in the adverse
party to their true interests and identities.
"American apartheid" - Correct Answers ✅to describe the
deliberate isolation and exclusion of Blacks from educational,
occupational and social institutions in the US
linguistic profiling - Correct Answers ✅a term coined by
linguist John Baugh that refers to the practice of using a
person's accent, speech, and other auditory cues to identify
the social characteristics of an individual
Questions and Answers (Complete
Practice Papers)
linguistic anthropology - Correct Answers ✅studies
language in its social and cultural context, across space and
over time
raciolinguistics - Correct Answers ✅how language is used
to construct race and how ideas of race influence language
and language use
language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅beliefs, or
feelings, about languages as used in their social worlds.
--ex. in US, powerful language ideologies link articulateness
with "standard" English with Whiteness
meta-language - Correct Answers ✅a form of language or
set of terms used for the description or analysis of another
language
linguistic relativity - Correct Answers ✅languages are
arbitrary systems; one cannot predict how they will classify
the world
--all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to
the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic
backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated
, Anthro 4 Midterm Solved Exam
Questions and Answers (Complete
Practice Papers)
linguistic functionalism - Correct Answers ✅languages
develop to deal with the distinct reality that surround the
speakers
standard language ideologies - Correct Answers ✅a bias
toward an abstracted, idealized, non-varying spoken
language that is imposed and maintained by dominant
institutions
--national standard is impossible since everyone speaks one
dialect or the other-->became a reason for limiting access to
discourse and discrimination.
--school, the media, the courts, corporate sector and others
promote standard language ideology in the USA.
--speakers of non-mainstream dialects who approve of the
standard language ideology find themselves in the adverse
party to their true interests and identities.
"American apartheid" - Correct Answers ✅to describe the
deliberate isolation and exclusion of Blacks from educational,
occupational and social institutions in the US
linguistic profiling - Correct Answers ✅a term coined by
linguist John Baugh that refers to the practice of using a
person's accent, speech, and other auditory cues to identify
the social characteristics of an individual
