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Ottenheimer describes using the tools of linguistic anthropology while serving on a committee writing policy a. establishing a curriculum for foreign language instruction. b. regulating the use of laptops and cell phones in the classroom. c. prohibiting racial and ethnic […]

When we say that anthropology is characterized by seeing the whole picture, getting the broadest view possible, anthropologists generally use the adjective a. holistic b. relativistic c. theoretical d. comparative Using more than one dialect (or language) in a single […]

Monolingualism is quite rare in countries throughout the world. True False Some early resistance among Mayanist archaeologists to the idea that the Mayan glyphs represented a real writing system might be explained by a widely-held belief that groups of people […]

The characters used in L337 speak are all semantic characters. True False In contrast to linguistic anthropology, the primary focus of theoretical linguistics is on form and structure, with little or no attention to the social contexts in which language […]

The “Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,” although never formulated as a hypothesis by either Edward Sapir or Benjamin Lee Whorf, has two forms: Strong Whorf and Weaker Whorf. In Strong Whorf, language is compared to a: a. room. b. prison. c. road. d. […]

All SOV languages make exclusive use of prepositions to mark location. True False Language areas of the brain appear to develop in response to the presence of linguistic signals. True False Answer: True The idea that situations affect the meanings […]

A situation in which individuals and communities maintain their bilingualism on a long-term basis is know as what? a. stable bilingualism b. transitional bilingualism c. academic bilingualism d. standardized bilingualism The criterion of “mutual intelligibility” is a clear-cut way to […]

Ethical concerns prompted linguistic anthropologist Harriet E. Manelis Klein, in her work with Ngobe speakers in Panama to a. refuse to teach missionary priests and nuns the Ngobe language. b. start a Spanish language school for Ngobe speakers, to help […]

The fact that many of our linguistic choices are unconsciously made a. does not mean that they are not based on language ideology. b. is a clear indication that ideology does not play an important role in language choice. c. […]