LESSON 6

Question 1

These are presumed to be inseparable; that is, cultural worlds are constructed from linguistic categories

Answer 1

Language, thought, and reality

Question 2

(a relationship between language and thought) - language determines the way people perceive and organize the world;

Answer 2

Linguistic determinism

Question 3

the distinctions encoded in one language are not found in any other language;

Answer 3

linguistic relativitism

Question 4

many thing can be said or thought in any language; no language is more complex or simpler or easier than any other; no language is innately harder or easier to learn than any other

Answer 4

linguistic equality

Question 5

the distinctions a language makes are arbitrary; there is no a prior way to predict ahead of time what distinctions a language might or might not make.

Answer 5

linguistic indeterminacy

Question 6

is a set of symbols in people’s heads, not just the behaviors that arise from them.

Answer 6

Culture

Question 7

are the primary basis for both linguistic and ethnographic study.

Answer 7

Discourse and “texts” of various kinds