culture
material culture and non material culture
if people spoke the same language what type of force would that be
a centripetal force
what is an artifact
an object made by human beings from an earlier period
what is centripetal force
a force that unifies people
who wrote the dictionary and changed some words in a sense of nationalism
Noah Webster
what type of culture spreads really fast
pop culture
what are languages organized into
families, branches, and groups
what is an sociofact
the way people act around others and establish rules that govern behavior
what is centrifugal force
a force that pulls people apart
what language family has the most users
Indo-European
what type of view is when you see someones culture through their eyes
cultural relativism
what are languages classified into
institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened, or dying
what is folk culture
it is local and homogeneous
what is a vigorous language
it is a language in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition
where in the world has the most diverse sounds
Western Africa
what type of culture spreads really slow and stays local
folk culture
what is an institutional language used in
it is used in work, education, mass media, and government
what is pop culture
it spreads across region and it is heterogenous
what is a threatened language
it is a language used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users
who added french to the English language
The Normans
what are the two forms of diffusion
expansion and relocation
what type of language collection is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past
what is ethnocentrism
it is when you believe your culture is at the center, and you base your feeling about someones culture using your own
what is a language family
it is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
what are the four most widespread language branches from the indo European family
Indo-Iranian (e.g., Persian, Hindi, Urdu.
Germanic (e.g., German, English)
Romance (e.g., Spanish, French, Italian)
Balto-Slavic (e.g., Russian, Polish, Serbian)