Chapter 4

Question 1

Communicative competence

Answer 1

Made by Dell Hymes. To refer to the master of adult rules for socially and culturally appropriate speech

Question 2

Connotative meaning

Answer 2

Additional meaning of a word

Question 3

Creole

Answer 3

Language that has developed over one or more past generations from 2 or more distinct language

Question 4

Denotative Meaning

Answer 4

Formal meaning’s of a word, as in given in a dictionary

Question 5

Design Features of Language

Answer 5

Characteristics of language that, when taken together, differentiate it from other known animal communication systems

Question 6

Discourse

Answer 6

Meaningful utterance or series of utterances united by a common theme

Question 7

Enthropragmetrics

Answer 7

Study of language use in a specific culture

Question 8

Grammer

Answer 8

Set of rules that describes the patterns of linguistic usage observed by members of the same speech community

Question 9

Heteroglossia

Answer 9

The Co-existence of multiple varieties of a specific language

Question 10

Langauge

Answer 10

System of symbols we use to encode our experiences of the world and of one another

Question 11

Langauge IDeology

Answer 11

System of beliefs about how language features relate to social features and what the reveal about the people who use them

Question 12

Linguistic Competence

Answer 12

Noam Chomsky. Refer to the mastery of adult grammer

Question 13

Linguistic Relativity Principle

Answer 13

(Sapir and Whorf hypothesis) Language has the power to shape the way people see the world

Question 14

Linguistic

Answer 14

Study of language

Question 15

Metalanguage

Answer 15

Language used to talk about language

Question 16

Metaphor

Answer 16

Meaningful link between 2 expressions from different semantic domains

Question 17

Mophemes

Answer 17

Smallest meaning-bearing units in any language (refers to a young male)

Question 18

Morphology

Answer 18

Study of the smallest units of meaning

Question 19

Native Speaker,

Answer 19

Person speaking their language since childbirth

Question 20

Phonemes

Answer 20

Units of distinct sounds that come together to form words

Question 21

Phonology

Answer 21

Study of sounds

Question 22

Pidgin,

Answer 22

Simple language with no native speakers that develops in a single generation between members of communities that possess distinct native languages (create new language that doesn’t come from their parents language)

Question 23

Pragmetrics

Answer 23

Study of language in the context of its use

Question 24

Sematics

Answer 24

Study of meaning

Question 25

Syntax

Answer 25

Study of sentence structures

Question 26

Vocabulary

Answer 26

Words used in particular language or by members of a particular speech community

Question 27

Charles Hocket

Answer 27

16 Design features of human language

6 most important
Openness 
Arbitrariness 
Duality of patterning 
Displacement
Semanticity 
Prevarication

Question 28

Dell Hymes

Answer 28

Thought competent adult speakers of a language do more than just follow grammatical rules when they speak

Question 29

Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf

Answer 29

Linguistic anthropologists that suggested language has the power to shape the way people see the world (Linguistic Relativity)

Question 30

5 specialties of formal linguistic analysis

Answer 30

Phonology
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics

Question 31

Deborah Tannen

Answer 31

Studied the relationship between language use and gender

Question 32

Terrence Deacon

Answer 32

Closed primate call systems don’t map onto any of the elements of human language

Human calls include sobbing and crying

Question 33

Prevarication

Answer 33

Telling a lie, specially in a sneaky way

Question 34

Structual Ambiguity

Answer 34

Ex. The man saw the boy with the binoculars

Question 35

Linguistic Diversity

Answer 35

Largest barrier to communication