Identity And Language Test Review Flashcards
Identity
How we make sense of ourselves
Ethnicity
Constructed identity
Ethnic conflict
A conflict between 2 or more contending ethnic groups
Identifying against
Part of cultural identity by comparing yourself to others
Race
Skin color, physical characteristics, social constructs, political constructs, biologically assigned and society assigned
Racism
A sense of superiority attached to race
Residential segregation
The degree of which two or more groups live separately
Succession
When another racial group moves into an area with an older immigrant group
Space
Social relations stretched out
Place
Particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together over time in that particular location
Gendered
Places designed specifically for men or women
Dowry deaths
Murders of brides when a dispute arises over dowry
Barriozation
Dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a neighborhood
Cultural identity
Experiences, emotions, connections, rejections, snapshot at a point in time, fluid, affect each other across scales, identifying against
Identity and space
What people should and should not do in a location
Power relationships
Assumptions about who is in control ex minority populations or homeless
Language
A set of sounds combination of sounds and symbols used for communication
Dialect
Unique vocabulary the way you say things and accents
Dialect chain
Set of dialects
Mutual intelligibility
The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking
Language families
A group of languages with a distant origin
Subfamilies
Divisions within a language family
Isogloss
Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs
Sound shift
Slight change in a word across languages
Proto indo European
Language started in feral crescent and moved everywhere
Backward reconstruction
Track sound shifts backward
Deep reconstruction
To recreate a language that was extinct
Standard language
The language you see and hear
Official language
Language the government defines
Topynym
Place name
Nostratic language
Language that spread from India
Romance language
Language family that contains French Spanish and Italian
Pidgin
Simplified structured language
Slavic language
Language family that includes Russian Polish and Czech
Language divergence
Language breaks or pulls apart
Language convergence
2 languages collapse together
Dispersal hypothesis
Language began in fertile crescent and moved toward Russia
Language
Set of sounds and symbols used for communication
Mutual intelligibility
The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking
Standard language
The language you see and hear
Dialects
Unique speech patterns
Dialect chain
Set of dialects
Isogloss
Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs
Language families
A groups of languages of a distant origin
Subfamilies
Divisions within a language family
Sound shift
Slight change in a word across languages
Proto indo European
Language started in the Fertile Crescent and moved everywhere
Backward reconstruction
Track sound shifts backward
Extinct language
Language with no native speakers
Deep reconstruction
To recreate a language that was extinct
Nostratic
Language that spread from India
Conquest theory
Language acquired by overpowering others
Germanic languages
Language family that includes English German and Danish
Lingua Franca
The language of trade
Creole language
Language that came from pidgin language
Monolingual states
A country that only speaks one language
Multilingual states
A country that speaks more than one language
Global language
Language most commonly used around the world
Gender
Assumptions, roles,creates divisions of labor and woman’s work
