Vocabulary Questions
What is an isogloss?🤔
An isogloss is a regional barrier that separates regional language differences. 😉
What are the two types of culture?🤔
The two types of culture are popular culture and folk culture.😉
How was soccer diffused?🤔
Soccer, or football as our British brethren like to call it, was diffused by the British Empire.😉 You are now probably asking yourself why soccer has anything to do with language. Well, I felt like it so deal with it. 😎😱😉
Ex: A church was made in a city by an emperor. A new emperor takes over that land and makes the church a mosque. What is this an example of?🤔
This is an example of sequent occupance.😱
What is a mentifact?🤔
A mentifact is the shared ideas, values, and beliefs of a culture.😉
What is orthography?🤔
Orthography is the way a language is written.😎
Ex: In my town we always shoot off fireworks on Christmas Eve. What type of culture is this?🤔
This is an example of folk culture.😉
How does a language become a threatened language?🤔
It becomes a threatened language when the number of speakers of that language are dwindling. 😉
What are gendered spaces?🤔
Gendered spaces are areas that men and women do not go together. Ex: man cave and she shed.😉
What is a material culture?
A material culture is made up of things people make and often give value to.
What is a sociofact?🤔
A sociofact is the structures and organizations of a culture which influence social behavior. Ex:- families, governments, education systems, etc.😉
When does a habit become a custom?🤔
A habit will become a custom when the habit is repetitively performed by a group of people not just one person or family.😉
Why is English a Germanic Language?🤔
English is a Germanic language because there were many German invasions on "Great Britain" when it was still developing so, many Germanic like language held on and stuck to England.😉
Ex: A farmer teaches people on TikTok how his town grows corn. This is an example of what?🤔
This is an example of cultural convergence. In this case the folk culture is how the farmer farms corn using his towns method and the popular culture is how he is spreading his town's methods through TikTok.😉
Folk Culture is...(Think type of solution!)
Homogenous.
What is a vigorous language?🤔
A vigorous language is a language that is in daily use but, that lacks a literary tradition.😉
True or False? Most sports originated as popular cultures and continued spreading from there.🤔
False. Most sports started as folk cultures that then grew into popular culture.😱
Language Family, Language Branch, and Language Group. What is the order of newest to oldest of these groupings?🤔
LF-Oldest, LB-Middle, and LG-Newest.😉
What is stimulus diffusion?🤔
Stimulus Diffusion is the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.😉
Popular Culture is...(Thinking types of solution!)
Heterogenous.
What is the most popular language family?🤔
The most popular language family is Indo-European.😉
True or False? A folk region is much larger than a popular region. 🤔
False. A popular region is much larger than a folk region because a popular region is more connected.😉
A language that is written as well as spoken. What is this?🤔
This is a literary tradition.😉
What is Place-Making?🤔
A place where people want to work, play, live, and learn.😉
What is Multiculturalism?
The idea that cultures can be separate and distinct from one another and still co-exist.