Exam 1 Flashcards
What is an open Ended interview?
An interview entirely based on the interviewee’s responses to the first question
Which anthropologist pioneered linguistic anthropology?
Laura Ahearn
Anthropologist that conducted research on language acquisition and socialization based on classes
Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin
What is quantitative data?
Data represented numerically, including anything that can be counted, measured, or given a numerical value
What is an icon?
A sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies
What is linguistic relativity?
A principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers worldview or cognition, thus determining their perceptions of the world
What is multi functionality?
When a single element is used in more than one distinct context (ie. Suffix or prefix)
What is habitus?
How we are predisposed to think and act in certain ways
What are defense intellectuals?
A group of mostly men hired to defend the US having weapons of mass destruction as deterrents to the use of such weapons by anyone else
What is language acquisition?
The process of learning a native or secondary language
What is universal grammar?
Noam Chomsky’s theory that all the world’s languages share a similar underlying structure
What is triadic communication?
An exchange of information between three or more people
What is code knowledge?
Knowledge of the rules of language structure that helps people decode words they may not know such as prefixes or suffixes
Qualitative data
Information that cannot be counted, measured or easily expressed using numbers
What is syntax?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well form sentences in a language
