Ch 4 & 5

Question 0

Folk culture

Answer 0

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in a relative isolation from other groups

Question 1

Custom

Answer 1

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act

Question 2

Habit

Answer 2

A repetitive act by a particular individual

Question 3

Popular culture

Answer 3

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Question 4

Taboo

Answer 4

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

Question 5

Terroir

Answer 5

The contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

Question 6

Creole

Answer 6

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer so language with the idigenous language of the people being dominated

Question 7

Denglish

Answer 7

A combination of german and english

Question 8

Dialect

Answer 8

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

Question 9

Ebonics

Answer 9

A dialect spoken by some african americans

Question 10

Extinct language

Answer 10

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used

Question 11

Franglais

Answer 11

A term used by french for english words that have entered the french language

Question 12

Isoglass

Answer 12

A boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate

Question 13

Isolated language

Answer 13

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family

Question 14

Language

Answer 14

A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

Question 15

Language branch

Answer 15

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands of years ago

Question 16

Language family

Answer 16

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Question 17

Language group

Answer 17

A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab

Question 18

Lingua franca

Answer 18

A language that mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

Question 19

Literary tradition

Answer 19

A language that is written as well as spoken

Question 20

Logogram

Answer 20

A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound

Question 21

Official language

Answer 21

The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documnets

Question 22

Pidgin language

Answer 22

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages

Question 23

Received pronunciation

Answer 23

The dialect of of english associated with upper class britons living in london and now considered standard in the UK

Question 24

Spanglish

Answer 24

A combination of english and spanish

Question 25

Standard language

Answer 25

The form of a language used for official government businesses, education, and mass comunications

Question 26

Vulgar latin

Answer 26

A form of latin used in a daily conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect , which was used for official documents