Cultures that promote direct communication in which messages are conveyed primarily and directly in verbal languages and the effects of context are minimized.
What is the definition of a low-context culture?
100
Morphemes
What are the smallest and most basic units of meaning in a language?
100
The linguistic relativity
What is the sapir-whorf hypothesis also referred to as?
100
Primarily hand movements that are used basically to illustrate speech and to convey verbal meaning.
What are gestures?
100
Takano and Noda (1995)
Who reported that the foreign language effect was larger when the discrepancy between the native and foreign languages was greater, and smaller when it was smaller?
200
Nonverbal gestures that carry meaning, like a phrase or sentence
What is the definition of emblems?
200
basic structure and features of language.
In order to examine the relationship between culture and language, it is useful first to identify the ______ and _____.
200
It suggest that people of different cultures think differently, just by the very nature, structure, and function of their language.
What does the sapir-whorf hypothesis verify?
200
movements that are directly tied to speech, and serve to illustrate or highlight what is being said.
What are speech illustrators?
200
They are suffering from a mental disorder
What is a misconception that people have on on bilinguists?
300
The smallest and most basic units of sound in a language.
What is the definition of phonemes?
300
The lexicon,the syntax and grammar, Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics.
What are the five critical features of all languages?
300
Language spoken by a Stone Age tribe living in the highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesian New Guinea.
What is the Dani language?
300
The A-Ok sign, the peace sign, or Ok
What is an American emblem?
300
Term refers to a temporary decline in the thinking ability of people who are using a foreign language in which they are less proficient than their native language.
What is the foreign language effect?
400
Speech styles in certain languages that denote status differences among interactants.
What is honorific speech?
400
Words like cooperative vs Uncooperative, Known vs unknown, or decided vs undecided
What words do most English speakers come to learn to differentiate?
400
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
Who were the two men who proposed the sapir-whorf hypothesis?
400
David Efron (Boas & Efron, 1936; Efron, 1941
Who's work has the roots of the study of culture and gestures?
400
The participants scored lower in the question-and-answer.
How did the participants score from their native language to their foreign language?
500
The proposition that speakers of different languages think differently, and that they do so because of the differences their languages. Also referred to as linguistic relativity
What is the definition of the Sapir-Whorf hypotheis?
500
L and R sounds
What is the sound most English speakers can easily hear and speak the difference between?
500
examined 78 languages and found that 11 basic color terms form a universal hierarchy.
Who are Berlin and Kay (1969)?
500
gestures having sexual implication.
What does the A-OK sign gesture in many European cultures?