Exam 2: Language and Culture

Linguistic anthropologists use two tools to explore semantic domains. Name and describe these tools, and briefly explain how each of these tools work.

A linguistic anthropologist sits down and starts asking you questions like these: What are the steps to selecting a class? At what time the class happens something you think about when you select a class? What other things do you think about when you select a class? This linguistic anthropologist is probably constructing

Give an example of a metaphor which is regularly used in a frame with which you are familiar. Give at least two examples of ways in which this metaphor operates.

According to George Lakoff, categories don't exist in the world independently of people. Rather categories are the result of the ways in which we interact with the world.

Berlin and Kay's research suggested that color terms emerged during cultural development in an orderly fashion. They believed the first three stages of emergence were

The existence of a large number of words about a particular topic is a strong indication of

Two people are debating taxation. One person sees taxes as a burden and talks about "tax relief." The other person considers taxes to be "community maintenance fees." Their different points of view illustrate how ________ can affect our perceptions of an issue.

Give an example of a test of linguistic determinism. This should be an actual test, as described in your reading or in lecture. Explain how the results support or do not support the theory of linguistic determinism.

The principle of linguistic relativity

The idea that language affects, and even determines, your ability to perceive and think about things, as well as to talk about them, is referred to as

Linguistic anthropologists use __________________ to reveal the culturally important features by which speakers of a language distinguish different words in a semantic domain.

Scholars doing "the new ethnography" argued that the categorization system encapsulated in a language, and the way a language categorized items

The "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis," although never formulated as a hypothesis by either Edward Sapir or Benjamin Lee Whorf, has two forms: Strong Whorf and Weaker Whorf. In Strong Whorf, language is compared to a

Whorf's principle of linguistic relativity argues that different languages represent different