Question 1

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

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Question 2

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

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A) a self-help book. 
B) a grammar of university student English. 
C) a taxonomy describing your mental map. 
D) a survey of student attitudes about courses.

Question 3

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.

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Question 4

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.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

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

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A) (1)red, (2)blue, and (3)black and white. 
B) (1)black and white, (2)red, and (3)green or yellow. 
C) (1)black and white, (2)blue, and (3)green. 
D) (1)red and blue, (2)black and white, and (3)grey.

Question 6

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

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A) cultural emphasis. 
B) ethnocentrism. 
C) linguistic relativism. 
D) idiosyncrasy.

Question 7

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.

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A) frames 
B) typologies 
C) cultural emphasis 
D) prototypes

Question 8

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.

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Question 9

The principle of linguistic relativity

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A) has been largely disproven through ethnographic research. 
B) is widely accepted today. 
C) requires that we accept the fact that our language controls our organization of the world. 
D) is disproven by the fact that we can learn other languages and translate from one language to another.

Question 10

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

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A) linguistic relativity. 
B) linguistic determinism. 
C) linguistic principle. 
D) ethnocentrism.

Question 11

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

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A) ethnosemantics 
B) taxonomy 
C) componential analysis 
D) ethnography

Question 12

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

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A) determined the mental maturity of the people who used it. 
B) was more sophisticated among "civilized" peoples. 
C) was a model, or mental map, that speakers had for that particular part of the world. 
D) could help elders in that culture to resist the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

Question 13

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

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A) room. 
B) prison. 
C) road. 
D) ocean.

Question 14

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

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A) levels of evolutionary sophistication in different cultures. 
B) ways of perceiving and thinking about the world. 
C) geographical surroundings. 
D) individual abilities.

Exam 2: Language and Culture