What Do You Mean?
The study of language in relation to social factors such as culture.
What is sociolinguistics?
"Piece of cake!" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
The part of the world in which Mexico is located.
What is North America?
The idea that one's culture is better than another's.
What is ethnocentricity?
Another word for grammatical competence (but not necessarily communicative competence).
What is usage?
A basic feature of humanity that has an interactional function.
What is communication?
You say "trash," I say "garbage."
What is variation/idiolect/dialect?
The official language of Ghana.
What is English?
Using cultural knowledge to make learning more effective for students.
It helps us decide whether language use is good or not.
What is context?
It's the purpose of transactional language.
What is to transmit knowledge, skills, or information?
The type of English we should teach.
What is "good English"?
What Muslim children may not eat.
What is pork?
The ability to work effectively and interact with people from cultures different than our own.
What is cultural competence?
Words and expressions commonly understood but not generally accepted as good or formal English.
What is slang?
A word linguists use to describe the property of creating new words.
What is productivity?
"He go to school every day" is an example of this.
What is subject-verb agreement?
Of Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria, which has never been a colony.
What is Ethiopia?
Learning to accept and appreciate differences between cultures without judgment.
What is cultural sensitivity?
Two of the nine types of word formation.
(100 points extra for each additional type named within the time limit)
What are blending, coinage, acronym, conversion, back formation, clipping, compounding, borrowing, derivation?
The property of language that there is no direct relationship between a word and the thing that it refers to.
What is arbitrariness?
This is one way that we know that language is culturally transmitted.
What is because you talk like the people you talk with?
Of Japan, Korea, and China, it's which state their last names first.
What is all three?
Fluid practices across languages in speakers' everyday lives.
What is translanguaging?
A population of humans whose members identify with each other on the basis of a real or presumed common genealogy or ancestry.
What is ethnicity/ an ethnic group?