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Language And Culture Exam 1 With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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Language And Culture Exam 1 WithComplete Solutions Latest Update
language - correct answers a range of communicative behavior (spoken,
signed, written electronic)
culture - correct answers The system of shared beliefs, values, customs,
behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with
their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from
generation to generation through learning
grammar - correct answers Grammar A set of rules that aim to describe
fully the pattern of linguistic usage observed by speakers of a particular
language.
grammaticality - correct answers the state or quality of being
grammatical.
phonology - correct answers the study of sound in language
morphology - correct answers the study of the internal structure of
words (ie suffixes, prefixes, infixes, plurals etc)
,the study of the structure and form of words
syntax - correct answers the study of the structure of sentences,
including the construction of phrases, clauses and order of words
the arrangement of items in an utterance
lexicon - correct answers a mental dictionary; the collection of words in
a language
semantics - correct answers the study of meaning in language, including
analysis of the meanings of words and sentences
pragmatics - correct answers the study of language use, of actual
utterances, of how meanings emerge in actual social contexts
ie: culturally and linguistically specific ways of structuring narratives,
performances, or everyday conversations
linguistic competence - correct answers the system of linguistic
knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
linguistic performance - correct answers the way a language system is
used in communication.
, descriptive grammars - correct answers analysis that describes the
actual usage of language users
prescriptive grammars - correct answers describing analysis or attitudes
that tell people how their languages should be
pounded rice rituals - correct answers As a wedding ritual in Nepal, the
wife would be instructed to giver her husband pounded rice. however
she would not give him rice until his tone was forceful and superior--
instance where you could not look at a linguistic analysis nor a
sociocultural analysis alone
Getting stoned in San Francisco - correct answers skit with kids in
school about drugs. used different words for "getting high" which
showed language as a set of socially embedded practices
instance where you could not look at a linguistic analysis nor a
sociocultural analysis alone
multifunctionality - correct answers refers to all the different kinds of
work that language does
Jakobson's six constitutive factors: expressive, conative, referential,
poetic, phatic, metalinguistic
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