True or False:
Habits are a part of culture.
False
Is language a centripetal or centrifugal force?
Both, language can pull people together or push people apart.
Are issoglosses 100% accurate?
No, they are not 100% accurate.
What is culture?
The way of life of a group of people
What is this an example of
Folk culture
Pop culture or folk culture:
A girl in Japan gets a pair of ripped jeans for her birthday.
Pop culture
What are the three different ways a language can be related to one another?
Language branch, language family, and language group.
What are the 4 regions of dialects in the United States?
The south, the midland, the north, and the west
What is a dialect?
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinct vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation.
What type of diffusion is this?
Contagious diffusion
What are the two elements of a culture?
The daily needs of a culture and the leisure activities of a culture. These make a culture unique.
What are three examples of an informal language?
Franglais, Spanglish, and Denglish
Who changed the spelling of many words to separate America from the British?
Noah Webster
What is ethnocentric?
The belief that one's culture is better than anothers.
What type of diffusion is this
Stimulus diffusion
What type of diffusion is this:
A girl moves from America to China and shows off her cropped top. All of her friends in China love it and start to buy it. Then the trend starts to spread quickly.
Relocation Diffusion
Which language in the Germanic branch has the most users?
English
What is the main dialect spoken in the Appalachian mountain?
Appalachian English
What is sequent occupancy?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural impact on a place, contributing to the cultural landscape.
What is this an example of
Dialect
Sociofact or mentifact:
At a bat mitzvah party, the girl has a father-daughter dance with her dad.
Sociofact
Is this an example of a dying language, threatened language, vigorous language, developing language, or institutional language?
This language has many users, but many of these users are older and they are not passing them on to their children.
Dying language
How could dialects be a centrifugal force?
If someone is discriminated for their dialect, people can be driven apart.
What is placemaking?
When someone takes a place and makes it more like their own culture.
What would this be an example of
Syncretism