Studied by 3 peopleCreole language
________- a language of mixed origin that has developed from a complex blending of two-parent languages and exists as a mother tongue for some part of the population.
Phonology
________- the systematic pattern of sounds in a language, also known as the languages sound system.
Parole
________ is language in its living, breathing sociocultural context- that is, language as it is actually used by people.
Government business
________ in the province of Quebec is conducted in French, and public signs must be written in French.
Syntax
________: how words are strung together to form sentences and more complex utterances, such as paragraphs.
Morphology
________- the structure of words and word formation in a language.
Metaphors
________ are comparisons that emphasize the similarities between things.
Ethnopoetics
________- a method of recording narrative speech acts- including oral poetry, stories, and ritual use of language- as verses and stanzas in order to capture the format and other performative elements that might be lost in written prose.
Philology
________- comparative study of ancient texts and documents.
Sociolinguistics
________- the study of how sociocultural context and norms shape language use and the effects of language use on society.
Linguistic relativity
________- the idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of differences in their languages.
Sociolinguists
________ study how context and cultural norms shape language use and the effects of language use on society.
Pidgins
________ have historically been developed for the purpose of business and trade.
Langue
________ is the technically correct manner in which people should speak.
Call systems
________ are stimuli-dependent, which means an animal can communicate only in response to a real-world stimulus.
creole languages
In the Americas, local colonized societies developed hybrid languages called ________: a language of mixed origin that has developed from a complex blending of two-parent languages and that exists as a mother tongue for some part of the population.
Ethnoscience
________- the study of how people classify things in the world, usually by considering some range or set of meanings.
Dialect
________ - a regional or social variety of a language in which the vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation differ from those of the standard version of the language (e.g., African American Vernacular English )
Accent
________- a regional or social variation in the way a language is pronounced (e.g., an Alabama accent)
Language
________ is also a marker of position in local, regional, national, and international contexts.
Edward Sapir
In the 1920s, linguistic anthropologist ________ (1929) argued that a language inclines its speakers to think about the world in certain ways because of its specific grammatical categories.
Ethnography of speaking
________ - the study of how people actually use spoken language in a particular cultural setting.
Linguists
________ identify the sounds of language (phonology) marking the contrasts between pairs or groups of sounds.
Symbols
________ are elaborations on signs, with a wider range of meanings.
philology
Historical linguistics began in the 18th century as ________: the comparative study of ancient texts and documents.
Ape vocal tracts
________ limit spoken language, so for decades researchhers have probed the limits of ape communication by teaching them signed languages.
English
In ________, the pronoun you may refer to one person or many people.
Indonesian
In contrast to the past, present, and future tenses of English, the Ningerum language of Papua New Guinea features five tenses and ________ has no regular tense markings.
Animal call systems
________ tend to be nearly the same within a species, with only minor differences between call systems used in widely separated regions.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
According to the ________, the language we speak does affect our perception of the world.
Language
________ is a(n) system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar.
Descriptive linguistics
________- the systematic analysis and description of a languages sound system and grammar.
Language ideology
________- widespread assumptions that people make about the relative sophistication and status of particular dialects and languages.
linguistic relativity
Sapir's work was an early expression of ________: the idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of differences in their languages.
Anthropological linguistics
________- the study of language from an anthropological point of view.
Morphology
________: how words are ford into meaningful units.
Sociolinguists
________ accept whatever form of language a community uses (parole) as the form of language they should study.
Syntax
________- the pattern of word order used to form sentences and longer utterances in a language.
Phonology
________: the structure of speech sounds.
Historical linguistics
________ focuses on how and where the languages people speak today emerged.
Sociolinguists
________ focus on the use of signs, symbols, and metaphors in daily life.
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