Indigenous Linguistics 1100 Final Exam

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Semiotics (Arbitrary, Motivated, Symbol, Icon, and Index)

A sign in a relationship between a significant (a perceptible form) and a signed (a conceptual form)

Symbol = Convention code → Arbitary

Icon = Similarity → motivated

index = indexicality → motivated

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what is Language Sustainability?

Definition: Efforts to preserve and revitalize languages.

Challenges: Language endangerment due to globalization & colonization.

    •    Revitalization:

Documentation (recording words, grammar, oral traditions).

Education programs (teaching younger generations).

Government policies (supporting Indigenous & minority languages).

Why it matters: Preserves culture, identity, and knowledge.

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what is Speech surrogates?

A communication system based on language

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what is Kinship Analysis in linguistics?

definition: Study of how languages classify family relationships.

Kinship Terminology → Words for family members.

Kinship Systems → Different ways cultures categorize kin.

Linguistic Relativity → Kinship terms shape social worldview.

Purpose: Shows cultural values & social structure through language

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Non-verbal communication

Definition: Conveying messages without words.

 Channels:

    •    Gestures

    •    Facial expressions

    •    Body posture and movements

    •    Eye contact

 Role:

    •    Complements verbal communication

    •    Can operate independently to convey emotion, intent, or context

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what is Writing in linguistics?

Definition: Representing language with visual symbols.

 Graphemics: Smallest units in writing (graphemes).

 Writing Systems: Alphabets, logograms, syllabaries, etc.

 Distinction: Writing is a different modality from speech.

 Influences: Shaped by cultural and historical factors.

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what is Multilingualism?

definition: using two or more languages in your community other in society

Individual multilingualism: A person who can speak multiple languages (bilingual/trilingual)

societal multilingualism: Societies where several languages are used in daily life, education, or government

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what is Language History?

Language history = study of how languages change over time

Language families → English is Germanic.

Sound changesKnight used to have a “k” sound.

Word changesNice meant “foolish” before.

Grammar changes → Sentence structures evolve.

Language contact → English borrows from French.

  •  Helps trace language roots and evolution.

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What is taxonomy?

  • Taxonomy is the science of classification, particularly in biology, where it involves categorizing organisms based on shared characteristics and relationships.

  • organizes words and concepts, or sounds into hierarchies

    examples

  • animal taxonomy: Animal → dog → Labrador

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what is a Prefix in linguistics?

A prefix is an affix added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
- prefixes cannot stand alone as words

EXAMPLE

  • Un - (not) — unhappy (not happy)

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what is Logographic?

A writing system that uses logograms, which are symbols that represent words/morphmes

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What is a symbol?

  • a symbol is a sign with an arbitrary connection to its meaning

  • meaning comes from Convention (agreed upon used)

    Examples

  • words → dog, doesn’t look like dog.

  • traffic signs → stop signs means “stop” because we agree it does.

  • part of semiotics (study of signs)

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What is an icon?

  • an icon is a sign that resembles what it represents

  • the connection is based on similarity (not arbitrary rules)

    EXAMPLES

  • Photographs → look like the real thing

  • Onomatopoeia → Buzz, meow (sound like what they mean

  • emojis (a heart emoji can represent love)



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What is an index?

A sign that has direct, casual, or contextual connections to what it represents (linked by association or evidence)

EXAMPLE

Smoke → fire (smoke indicates fire is present)

Pronouns (I, you) (their meaning depends on who is speaking

•contextual relationship •evidence-based connection

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CASE STUDY - The Pueblo - Hopi

  • lost city, hunter gatherer

  • matrilineal - through mother lines

  • clan structures - matrilineal

  • matrilocal - live with the mothers side of the family

  • exogamous

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what does Exogamous mean?

can't marry inside your clan - has to marry outside the clan (avoids incest) (forges connections)

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what does endogamous mean?

marrying within a specific social group, community, or ethnic group, as opposed to marrying outside of it.

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what does Primogeniture mean?

a system of inheritance in which a person's property passes to their firstborn legitimate child upon their death

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why and how is slang used??

  • faster to say certain things

  • more fun - social persona - don’t talk that way with your parents or grandparents but you do with your friends)

  • appropriateness

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Dialect Distinctiveness

Nomadic: Fuzzy boundaries

Sedentary: Distinct

Stratification: Distinct + Pritege langauge

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Plains sign language - structure

Compunds: “White man” + “Soldier” = Infantry

- Largest record sign lexicon = 3500 signs; comparison to pidgins & creoles

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