Pop and Folk culture
What is the most dominant culture?
Pop culture
What is a Language?
is a system of communication through speech, movement, sounds, or symbols that a group of people understand to have the same meaning.
What percent of the world uses a language that belongs to one of the seven major language families?
90%
What is dialect?
a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is the most popular language branch?
Indo-European
What is Folk culture?
is traditionally primary by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is a force that tends to unify people?
Centripetal force
What are the four main languages in the Romance branch?
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian
What is Multiculturalism?
the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
In Appalachin English what is a creek?
crick
What is Ethnocentrism?
that you believe that your culture is at the center.
Where is it believed that the first language was made?
The Southeastern Coast of Africa
What is Denglish?
German and English
What is sequent occupance?
The interaction of cultures over time within a single, shared space
What is a language that doesn't follow grammar rules and multiple elements of languages called?
A pidgin language
What is a sustainability challenge that Pop Culture faces?
Lack of sustainable practices designed to promote uniform landscapes.
What is an Institutional Language?
a language that is used in education, the governmant, and mass media
In how many countries is English an official language?
56
What is a Lingua Franca?
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
What year what the American School for the deaf founded?
1817
What is a clothing item that someone who takes part in folk culture in the Netherlands might wear.
Clogs or clogging shoes
What is Literary tradition?
A language that is written as well as spoken
What is the Origin on English?
English stems from successive Germanic invasions of the British Isles followed by a Norman invasion from France.
What is a Creolized Language?
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is a Working language?
a language used by international organizations and corperations as its primary means of communication.