Culture
The way we behave and the values that guide our decisions describe what of a society?
They describe a societies culture
define language
A system of communication through speech, movements, sounds or symbols.
What invasions led to English having words from romance and germanic languages?
The German and Norman invasions.
What are someways different regions have different dialects?
Vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a community drive process in which people collaborate to create a place where they can live, work, play, and learn?
Placemaking
Out of Artifacts, Sociofacts, and Mentifacts which are the slowest to change and which are the fastest to change?
Slowest to change- Mentifacts
Fastest to change- Artifacts
What is the difference between a centripetal and centrifugal force?
Centripetal force- a force that tends to unify people
Centrifugal force- a force that tends to pull people apart
How did English diffuse across the world?
Colonization from the UK and United States. The media also is a huge reason.
Why is there a difference in dialect in American and British English?
This resulted from migration several 100 years ago and a lack of spatial interaction.
Describe sequent occupancy
Notion that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint, collection of evidence about human character/experience within a geographic region, which shapes a cultural landscape.
What is the difference between folk-culture and pop-culture?
Folk-culture is local and homogeneous, and pop-culture spreads across regions and is heterogenous.
Put the following ways to organize languages in order from most to least popular.
Threatened language, Developing language, Vigorous language, Institutional language, and Dying language
Institutional language, Developing language, Vigorous language, Threatened language, and Dying language
What is English and example of?
English is an example of a lingua franca.
What are the four main different isoglosses in the United States?
North, Midland, South, and West
What is a linga franca?
A language of international communication.
How does the culture of a society impact its environment?
Give and example.
Each culture interjects elements into the environment.
An example is the pyramids of Egypt.
What is the most used language family?
Indo-European
What is the difference between an Official and Working language? Which one is English?
An official language is used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public business. A working language is designated by an international organization/corporation as its primary means of communication. English is an official language.
Referring to dialects, what is the standard language in southern United States?
Southern dialect
What is a simplified version of a lingua franca that a group learn?
A pidgin language
Compare Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Multicultralism.
Being ethnocentric means you base your feelings about someone else's culture using your own. Cultural Relativism is more empathetic and you see someones culture through cultural context. Multicultralism is and idea that cultures can be separate but still coexist.
Using the tree analogy, what would the roots, trunks, branches, and leaves represent?
The roots represent super family, the trunks represent language family's(some divide into branches), and the leaves represent individual languages.
What are informal languages that include English?
Franglais, Spanglish, and Denglish.
A creolized language is a language that results from what?
From mixing of the colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is mutual intelligibility?