What theory “highlights the contextual nature” of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the “political engagement” of “queers” with the heteronormative?
The Queer Theory
100
What is the definition of language?
A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication
100
what is a lingua franca?
language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce
100
Those who lose their language often lose their ____ as well
Culture
100
Who defined identity as “how we make sense of ourselves.”?
Geographer Gilliam Rose
200
Jim Crow Laws are examples of what?
Power relationship subjugating an entire group of people
200
What are gendered places?
places designed for women or for men
200
what is an isogloss?
the geographic boundaries for a linguistic feature
200
What is the language believed to be the ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European and other language families?
Nostratic (Language)
200
What period of time did construct many societies’ modern assumptions about race?
period of European exploration and colonialism.
300
What is the Renfrew Hypothesis?
The claim that Europe’s Indo-European languages diffused from Anatolia (or present-day Turkey)
300
What is a dialect?
Variants in the standard language throughout regions or ethnicities
300
What is a toponym?
A place name
300
Which language family and subfamily does English belong to?
Indo-European, Germanic
300
How do some people create places where they limit the access of other peoples?
through graffiti, murals, and other building colors
400
What is the conquest theory?
Theory that holds that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants.
400
What is a sound shift?
A slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily
400
what is commodifying? (in the context of toponyms)
buying, selling, and trading of toponyms
400
what kind of toponym is often prompted by independence?
post-revolution toponyms
400
The idea of _____________as an identity stems from the notion that people are closely bounded, even related, in a certain place over time.
Ethnicity
500
What does the Dispersal Hypothesis say?
That the Indo-European languages were first carried east into Southwest Asia, the Caspian Sea, then across Russian-Ukraine plains, and into the Balkans
500
What is the difference between language convergence and language divergence?
Convergence is when to languages collapse into one and divergence is when new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects
500
What did geographers Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton define as the “degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment?”
Residential segregation
500
___ societies are more likely to have a standard language