Expressing Yourself

Question 1

Play

Answer 1

A framing (or orienting context) that is:
-consciously adopted by the players;
-somehow pleasurable; and
-systemically related to what is non-play by alluding to the
non-play world and by transforming the objects, roles,
actions, and relations of ends and means characteristic of
the non-play world.

Question 2

Sport

Answer 2

An aggressively competitive, often physically
exertive activity governed by game-like rules that
are ritually patterned and agreed-upon by all
participants

Question 3

Myth

Answer 3

A representative story that embodies a culture’s
assumptions about the way society, or the world in
general, must operate
– Most people understand life through these tales
– Describe and explain their experiences (in a non scientific way)
– Provide moral instruction (ethical message of society’s
religion)

Question 4

Ritual

Answer 4

A repetitive social practice set off from everyday routine
and composed of a sequence of symbolic activities that
adhere to a culturally defined ritual schema and are closely connected to a specific set of ideas central to the culture

Question 5

Art

Answer 5

Play with form producing some aesthetically

successful transformation-representation

Question 6

Anthropological Interest in Language

Answer 6

1. Fieldwork proceeds through oral communication.
2. Language involves grammatical and conceptual
   intricacies that anthropologists can analyze to gain insight into a culture.
3. All people use language to encode their experiences, to structure their understanding of the world and of themselves, and to engage with one another.

Question 7

Linguistic Relativity Principle

Answer 7

Emphasis on how our language structures our cultural worlds

Question 8

Linguistic determinism (strong)

Answer 8

The patterns of our thoughts and our culture are

determined by the patterns of our spoken language

Question 9

Weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Answer 9

Rejects linguistic determinism but claims that language

shapes thought and culture

Question 10

Sociolinguistics

Answer 10

Culture and society shapes our language

Question 11

Design Features of Human Language

Answer 11

1. openness
2. displacement
3. prevarication
4. arbitrariness
5. duality of patterning
6. semanticity

Question 12

Pragmatics

Answer 12

The study of language in the context of its use

Question 13

Ethnopragmatics

Answer 13

The study of language use in a specific culture, grounded
in an ethnographic approach, with close attention to the
relationships between language, communication, and
social interaction

Question 14

Paralanguage

Answer 14

Non-verbal language
These include:
– silence 
– body placement in relation to other people
– physical appearance

Question 15

Non-verbal Communication

Answer 15

Nonverbal communication is conveying meaning or
expressing feelings consciously or subconsciously through means other than words.
-Nonverbal communication often contradicts verbal
communication
-Nonverbal messages tend to be ambiguous
-Some people believe nonverbal messages hold
more true meaning than the verbal message
-Nonverbal messages are often sent subconsciously

Question 16

6 Forms of Non-verbal Communication

Answer 16

1) Kinesics
2) Vocal Para-language
3) Environment
4) Chronemics
5) Proxemics
6) Haptics