Culture
Languages and Dialects
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Cultural Landscape
Language Trees
100
What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that make up distinct tradition in a group of people.
100
A language that varies by region (Accent)
What is a dialect?
100
Is language part of culture and why
Yes, because it can be part of a specific religion, or connects groups of people over long distance
100
Define cultural landscape
A landscape that has been modified by humans to reflect their cultural beliefs and values.
100
What is a language tree?
A visual representation of what languages may have stemmed from depicted as a tree with many branches and leaves
200
What is the difference between an Artifact, a Mentifact, and a sociofact, and how fast are these things likely to change?
Artifact: Things people make,create, and produce (Fastest to change)
Sociofact: The way people act around others and establish rules around each other. Organizations, groups of people, etc.)(Slower to change)
Mentifact: Central elements that reflect shared ideas, values, knowledge, and beliefs (Slowest to change)
200
How do dialects differ from the original language?
What is changes in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary
200
Why do US spellings of words differ from European?
Noah Webster and Nationalism
200
Give two examples of Sequent Occupancy
Greece, Rome, Tahj Mahal, New Orleans
200
Name 8 language families
Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Tai-Kadai, Nilo-Saharan
300
Ethnocentrism vs Cultural relativism
Bug tacos are disgusting (1)
Bug tacos are interesting(2)
Bug tacos might be yucky(3)
What is:
1: Ethnocentism
2: Cultural Relativism
3: Cultural Relativism
300
Franglais, Spanglish, and Denglish are examples of what?
What is Informal language
300
What is a Creolized language?
Language result of the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the colonized.
300
Define this picture as a cultural landscape
I am leaving this open ended because there are lots of possible answers :)
300
What group, branch, and family does English fall into?
Indo-European, European, Germanic
400
There is a country that has many many different cultures all living in the same city. What is this an example of?
What is Multiculturalism
400
Name the 6 official languages and define official language.
What is English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese. A language used by a government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public buisness.
400
What are some positives and negatives of cultural convergence?
Positives: Democratization, sharing of knowledge
Negatives Loss of indigenous languages as English dominates
400
Describe this picture as a cultural landscape
I am leaving this open ended because there are lots of possible answers :)
400
Put in order by size:
Leaf, family, group, branch
Family, branch, group, leaf
500
If there is a family that works on a farm to grow corn, which they have been doing for 5 generations. The 4 children go to school, and the father worked as a marine before retiring from duty to help with the farm. This family also goes to church every Sunday. Give an example of an Artifact, Sociofact, and Mentifact
Artifact: The corn they grow
Sociofact: The Marines, the School, the Family
Mentifact: Christianity, Working on the farm
500
Define Isoglass and where in general would the Isoglass would be in the US for the 4 main dialects (Just name a few states and which dialect)
Word use boundary with a degree of geographic extent
500
What are the two ways a language can diffuse, the three varieties of one of them, and an example of each
Expansion: 3 varieties, Hierarchical (Hip hop, Jazz, etc.), contagious (Memes, covid, etc.), and stimulus (Vegitarian McDonalds in India, etc.)
Relocation: A person migrating to another place and then spreading their culture
500
What are the 6 ways to breakdown a cultural landscape?
Physical features and vegetation, agriculture vs industry, religous or languistic characteristics, evidence of sequent occupancy, Traditional vs modern architecture, land use patterns
500
What are the unconnected roots of a language tree called?
Superfamilies