Week 4

The key scenario differs from other kinds of symbols because it

implies how people should act.

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

parole

When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?

parole

____________ refers to the structure of speech sounds

phonology

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

morphology

Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

a pidgin language

The study of how words are formed into meaningful units, such as grammatical categories like tense and word order, is called

morphology

A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called

a creole

A stoplight that is green communicates that you should go. The green is a visual example of which of the following?

a sign

Animal call systems

can only communicate in response to real-world stimuli

Which of the following is a contributing factor to the development of creoles, pidgins, and other hybrid forms of language?

colonialism, globalization, commerce, migration

the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism.

ethnoscience

Which of the following features are characteristic of language

it developed over time, it is flexible, it is dynamic

What is a feature of language

it is used to communicate it is systematic it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar