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Identity And Language Test Review Flashcards

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1
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Identity

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How we make sense of ourselves

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Ethnicity

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Constructed identity

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Ethnic conflict

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A conflict between 2 or more contending ethnic groups

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Identifying against

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Part of cultural identity by comparing yourself to others

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Race

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Skin color, physical characteristics, social constructs, political constructs, biologically assigned and society assigned

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Racism

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A sense of superiority attached to race

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Residential segregation

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The degree of which two or more groups live separately

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Succession

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When another racial group moves into an area with an older immigrant group

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Space

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Social relations stretched out

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Place

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Particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together over time in that particular location

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Gendered

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Places designed specifically for men or women

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Dowry deaths

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Murders of brides when a dispute arises over dowry

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Barriozation

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Dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a neighborhood

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Cultural identity

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Experiences, emotions, connections, rejections, snapshot at a point in time, fluid, affect each other across scales, identifying against

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Identity and space

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What people should and should not do in a location

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Power relationships

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Assumptions about who is in control ex minority populations or homeless

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Language

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A set of sounds combination of sounds and symbols used for communication

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Dialect

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Unique vocabulary the way you say things and accents

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Dialect chain

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Set of dialects

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Mutual intelligibility

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The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking

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Language families

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A group of languages with a distant origin

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Subfamilies

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Divisions within a language family

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Isogloss

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Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs

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Sound shift

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Slight change in a word across languages

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Proto indo European

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Language started in feral crescent and moved everywhere

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Backward reconstruction

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Track sound shifts backward

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Deep reconstruction

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To recreate a language that was extinct

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Standard language

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The language you see and hear

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Official language

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Language the government defines

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Topynym

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Place name

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Nostratic language

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Language that spread from India

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Romance language

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Language family that contains French Spanish and Italian

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Pidgin

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Simplified structured language

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Slavic language

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Language family that includes Russian Polish and Czech

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Language divergence

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Language breaks or pulls apart

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Language convergence

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2 languages collapse together

37
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Dispersal hypothesis

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Language began in fertile crescent and moved toward Russia

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Language

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Set of sounds and symbols used for communication

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Mutual intelligibility

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The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking

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Standard language

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The language you see and hear

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Dialects

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Unique speech patterns

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Dialect chain

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Set of dialects

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Isogloss

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Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs

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Language families

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A groups of languages of a distant origin

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Subfamilies

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Divisions within a language family

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Sound shift

A

Slight change in a word across languages

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Proto indo European

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Language started in the Fertile Crescent and moved everywhere

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Backward reconstruction

A

Track sound shifts backward

49
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Extinct language

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Language with no native speakers

50
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Deep reconstruction

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To recreate a language that was extinct

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Nostratic

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Language that spread from India

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Conquest theory

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Language acquired by overpowering others

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Germanic languages

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Language family that includes English German and Danish

54
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Lingua Franca

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The language of trade

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Creole language

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Language that came from pidgin language

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Monolingual states

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A country that only speaks one language

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Multilingual states

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A country that speaks more than one language

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Global language

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Language most commonly used around the world

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Gender

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Assumptions, roles,creates divisions of labor and woman’s work

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