Vocabulary
Actions and Materials in Culture
Language Families and Branches
Informal Languages and Dialects
Potpurri
100
A language of international communication.
What is Lingua Franca?
100
A girl who lives in the suburbs of North Carolina has just been given a car for her 16th birthday. Is this an example of material or non-material culture?
What is material culture?
100
What is the most widely used language branch?
What is Indo-European?
100
Denglish is a combination of what two languages?
What is German and English?
100
Sports are diffused through ____ diffusion.
What is Contagious (diffusion)?
200
A restriction on behavior imposed by religious law or social custom.
What is Taboo?
200
A small town is in the rural part of Ireland. They hold festivals with songs from many years in the past and have some modern technology, but not things like brand new iphones and macs. Does this town produce more pop culture or folk culture?
What is folk culture?
200
What language branch is pictured in the photo?
What is Sino-Tibetan?
200
Recieved Pronunciation is the same as what term?
What is Standard Language?
200
People of different cultures avoid some foods because of Food ____.
What are (Food) Taboos?
300
A new language made from some of the grammar rules and words of a lingua franca and another language
What is Pidgin Language?
300
Is religion a artifact, sociofact, or a mentifact?
What is mentifact?
300
Multiple languages in a small area causing conflict are an example of what force?
What is Centrifugal Force?
300
The boundaries between English dialects move as people ____.
What is migrate?
300
A family travels to India and goes to an Indian restaurant for dinner. The youngest son of the family refuses to eat the food because it is "gross". This is an example of what?
What is Ethnocentrism?
400
The act of pop and folk culture combining. It is essentially globalization of culuture.
What is Cultural Convergence?
400
Because of a new internet trend, many kids and teens wear black bracelets to various places every day. Is this a habit or a custom?
What is custom?
400
The sequence is an example of what
Indo-European, West Germanic, English
What is Families, Branches, Groups?
400
_____ differs because the location of people is different, therefore some people have words for an object that others don't.
What is Vocabulary?
400
What are the three of the six official languages designated by the UN?
What is English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and/or Chinese?
500
The notion that successive societies leave behind a cultural implant.
What is Sequent Occupance?
500
Each culture has daily necessities, which they all have in common. _____ differ between groups, and are used to relax and express one's culture.
What are Leisure Activities?
500
Describe the order of categories of languages from least to most in danger (ex developing, threatened, etc)
What is institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened, dying?
500
A man is going to a court hearing in a government building. A country's _____ language will be used.
What is Official (Language)?
500
Where in the world do you think this is?
(country, and region are both accepted answers)
What is Brazil, South America