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LING 115 finalApologizing is an example of - correct answer ✔Negative Politeness
Making a request is an example of - correct answer ✔A Face Threatening
Act
Minimizing a request is an example of - correct answer ✔Negative
Politeness
Using someone's first name or a nickname is an example of - correct answer
✔Positive Politeness
Why would a superior uses a V-form of address with a subordinate, and allow
the subordinate to use a T-form back? - correct answer ✔the superior is
showing the subordinate respect so as to not offend them
The form of address that best communicates solidarity is - correct answer
✔first name only
Using the V-form of address is always more polite. (T/F) - correct answer
✔false
The polite way for people of the same status to address eachother (T-form or
V-form) is different from one culture to another. (T/F) - correct answer ✔true
Title Only is the form of address that communicates the most power. (T/F) -
correct answer ✔true
, A language with honorifics will use different ________________ depending on
how much solidarity vs. power the speaker wishes to communicate. - correct
answer ✔forms of address, nouns, and verbs
According to the theory of Linguistic Determinism, a speaker of Javanese -
correct answer ✔Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments
about everyone he/she meets.
Classifiers are - correct answer ✔words that are used to indicate the type of
noun (usually categorized by shape) when counting.
The Navajo children in the classifer experiment - correct answer ✔Behaved
the same as the English speakers from Boston.
Why, most likely, can speakers of Tzotzil identify compass directions better
than speakers of English? - correct answer ✔Their language uses compass
directions, as opposed to left and right, to indicate relative location. (Ex: The
cup is to the east of the plate.), Speakers of Tzotzil usually stay in a narrow
geographic area their whole life and spend a lot of time outside where there
are distinctive geographic features to orient themselves by.
Edward Sapir was - correct answer ✔a Yale professor who focused on how
having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.
Inuit (Eskimo) has over 40 words for snow. (T/F) - correct answer ✔False
Arabic doesn't have a generic word for camel, but rather a number of more
specific words such as "female camel." (T/F) - correct answer ✔False
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