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concepts
language diversity
language structure
language change and culture
concepts
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sending and receiving messages
What is communication
100
6000
the number of languages currently spoken
100
the study of the basic building blocks of a language
What is phonology
100
prestige
using words from anther language which applying which applying to anther culture expertise
100
code switching
changing the behavior of language to the context" age,gender and social status of people involved
200
language
symbolic system of sounds linked together following sets of rules to convey meaning
200
95%
What is the percentage of people speak only 1/60th of the currently spoken languages
200
phoneme
smallest unit of sound that signals a difference in meaning
200
the author who established the culture linguistics "american historicism"
who is Franz Boas ?
200
true
euphemisms are found in all societies
300
colonization
reason from the past caused the extinction of some languages
300
false only 5%
true or false 20% of people speaks thousands of different languages around the globe
300
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What is the english language structure phoneme consonants vowels semi-vowles
300
true
to understand culture you have to understand its language and vice versa
300
dialects
regional or class variations of language that is mutually understood
400
globalization
current event endangers many languages or have already made some extenction
400
Chinese
the first most speaking language in the world
400

grammar

systematic rules that combines sounds to be meaningful within a language

400
cultural emphasis
vocabulary will have specialized words that are adaptively important
400
because of their association with political, social and lower economic status
why do speakers of certain dialects are often stigmatized by dominant groups
500
lingua franca
common language between linguistic separate communities
500
arabic ... german
the fourth most spoken language around the world.... the tenth most spoken language around the world
500
morphology/syntax
how morphemes are formed into words/ how words are formed into phrase and sentence
500
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
language shapes perception of the world, also language determines or influences how people perceive the world.
500
standard American english
southern drawl, ebonics, and Appalachian english are dialects that are just efficient as