Exam 2: Language and Culture

The term used by cognitive anthropologists to refer to a specific area of cultural emphasis is

The term used to refer to a set of ideas we have about the way things should be is ________.

Berlin and Kay applied their color naming system in an even-handed way, with consistent standards for all cultural groups.

Ottenheimer considers lettuce to be a better example of a category of SALAD GREENS than dandelions are. What best explains her categorization of SALAD GREENS?

The story Ottenheimer describes, told by blues musician Cousin Joe told about his encounter with a police officer in Mississippi illustrates the idea that

A recent challenge to the idea of linguistic relativity came from Berlin and Kay's study of

A chart showing how words in a specific semantic domain are related to one another is called a

Different frames applied to very similar actions can result in dramatically different interpretations of those actions.

By employing the comparative method, linguistic anthropologists have discovered that learning a new language consists mostly of learning new labels for the same things.

Because of their different languages, English speakers tend to group objects in terms of common material, while Yucatec speakers tend to group items in terms of common shape.

John Lucy's research on English speakers and Yucatec speakers supports which theory?

In the 1960s, a linguistic-based approach to ethnography used language to explore a culture's system of categorization. What was this approach called?

The idea that knowing one language will not allow you to predict how another language will categorize and knowing one language and name the world is called

An egocentric deictic system is associated with

The fact that different languages divide and name the colors in a rainbow differently is an example of

A lack of ideas that you need to talk about or think about something is called ________.

Feature analysis is based on the idea that

Benjamin Lee Whorf wrote that "users of markedly different grammars are pointed by their grammars towards different types of observations and different evaluations of externally similar acts of observation, and hence are not equivalent as observers but must arrive at somewhat different views of the world." He called this his

In the Hanunóo language, there are four primary color terms. This fact

Describe the difference between what is described in the text as Strong Whorf and Weaker Whorf, noting that both are forms of linguistic determinism.