Folk v Pop Culture
Cultural Landscapes
Distribution of Languages
Dialect
Potpurri
100
Which is becoming more dominant?
Pop culture!
100
Every landscape is a ________.
cultural landscape
100
A centripetal force is a _____ factor, and a centrifugal force is a _____ factor.
pull...push
100
Someones' accent is a great indicator of a
dialect
100
Order these from SLOWEST TO FASTEST to change:
Sociofacts, Artifacts, and Menifacts
mentifacts, sociofacts, then artifacts
200
Which is more tradition based?
Folk culture!
200
The study of human adaptations to social and physical environments is _______.
cultural ecology
200
A language in Northern Africa that can be spoken, but not written, is a _____ language that lacks _____ _____
vigorous...literary tradition
200
Saying "y'all" is not considered formal in the U.S. in government, business, ect., this is determined by the _____ _____.
standard language
200
A cultural trait must be _______ ___ ___ ________, otherwise it's just a habit or feeling
shared by the population
300
Pop culture is diffused from a developed country into a less developed one. This leads to the dominance in _____ perspectives in the less developed country.
Western
300
These are rice fields in Vietnam. What type of land-use pattern is this?
Agricultural
300
Proto-Indo-European, the existence of a single ancestor of all Indo-European branches, is theorized to take start in which continent?
Africa
300
The 4 major dialects of the U.S. are...
Northern, Midland, Western, and Southeastern
300
A language's writing system is also known as it's ________.
orthography
400
What are the differences between folk and pop culture?
Folk culture: smaller, homogeneous groups
Pop culture: large, heterogeneous groups
400
A country leaves a historical building up from the Empire that used to inhabit the country. This is an example of...
Sequence occupancy
400
Differences are the most extensive between:
a.) language groups
b.) language branches
c.) language families
c.) language families
400
After communications between French colonists and African slaves in the late 17th+ early 18th centuries, a mixture of French dialects and African languages created a whole new language. What is the type of this new language called?
creolized language
400
Informal languages is an example of _______. List 2 examples as well.
-syncretism
-Spanglish, Frenglish, Denglish
500
What are the pros and cons of pop and folk culture mixing? (usually in cultural convergence)
Pros: democratization, sharing ideas
Cons: loss of indigenous languages and ways of life
500
Indigenous folk may feel a "____ __ ____" when visiting a historical landmark.
sense of place
500
A language that is spoken in Eastern Europe is typically classified into which branch of Indo-European languages?
Balto-Slavic Branch
500
For England, the standard dialect is known as the _____ _______.
received pronunciation
500
In many Jewish and Muslim communities, it is forbidden to eat pork. This is an example of a _______.
taboo