Test review
Research methods
People
Stuff that wasn't on the test
Performance
100
a field of inquiry that studies cultural activities in order to better understand the ways in which children learn the language of their society
What is language socialization?
100
question you go with into the field
What is research question?
100
makes a distinction between speech (parole) and language (langue)
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
100
The widespread notion that communication involves transferring ‘content’ (ideas, information, feelings, etc.) between two people through a ‘conduit’ such as language that is presumed to be completely value-neutral
What is conduit model of communication?
100
class of words that specifically perform actions
What are performatives?
200
opposite of processualizing
What is essentializing?
200
A research method in which an investigator studies the life of a group by sharing in its activities.
What is participant observation?
200
Theorist of semiosis: famous triad (icons, indexes, and symbols)
Who is Peirce?
200
referential-denotative meaning
What is semantic meaning?
200
theory that some sentences/words merely say something and others do something
What is performativity or speech act theory?
300
sign that resembles something else
What is icon?
300
not the most important method in anthropology but can be useful
What are surveys or questionnaires?
300
theorist of the six “constitutive factors” in any speech event, with corresponding functions.
Who is Jakobson?
300
The simultaneous use of several modes or channels in carrying out communication in situations of human interaction.
What is multimodality?
300
The effectiveness of performatives depending on whether the statements are uttered in an appropriate context by individuals with the appropriate authority
What is felicitous/ infelicitous
400
scientific study of signs
What is semiotics?
400
process of writing down everything that was said on tape
What is transcription?
400
theorist for habitus: “sensibilities” within which a groups’ history becomes embodied
Who is Bourdieu?
400
When a sign carries many meanings.
What is polysemy?
400
Ways to let people know that a performance is taking place
What is Keying? (special language such as once upon a time; special seating arrangements)
500
study of structure of words
What is morphology?
500
Possesses whatever effectiveness discourse in general, or a particular genre or type of discourse, is expected to have or manifest in a particular culturally conceived setting or occasion
What is "naturalistic" speech?
500
sociolinguist who uses the "danger of death" question to make the interview situation more "natural"
Who is William Labov?
500
hypothesized to be the the biological basis for intersubjectivity and the theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to imagine another’s perspective as separate form one’s one
What is the mirror neuron?
500
hypothetical knowledge of the ideal speaker-listener, who knows a language perfectly
What is Chomsky's "competence"?
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