LING 2500 Final Exam
Food plying as described by Chen (1996) refers to ...
A sequence of speech acts involving the offering of food and the eventual acceptance of the offer
Which of the following would NOT be considered a speech situation?
A toast
Matses is an indigenous language of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon. According to Deutscher, Matses has the most complicated linguistic system of.....?
Evidentiality
In Japanese traffic lights, which color is different from the international standard?
Green
Which statement is true about Freedman & Jurafsky's study?
Historicity and localilty are more frequently mentioned on cheaper bags
Which statement is true?
In France English product names are maintained on menus
Which is a true statement about the phrase Frankenstein foods?
It is used mostly by the pro-GM lobby
Deutscher uses the example of the Matses language to support which of the following statements?
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
Which is NOT an argument put forward by Steven Pinker?
Languages with geographic coordinates like Guugu Yimithirr force speakers to develop an accurate memory of their own changing orientation
Which statement is FALSE?
Lloyd's List, the newspaper of shipping industry, still refers to ships as female
Which language has different words for inclusive and exclusive "we"??
Malay
Which is NOT a true statement about the classification of fruit in Chinese?
Melons are considered part of the juicy fruits category shui guo
Which statement is true?
Modern durum wheat pasta was developed in Sicily
In the movie clip from Big Night, the customer says:" Excuse me, didn't you say that this was going to be rice and seafood?" This is an example of
Negative politeness
Which is NOT mentioned by Cook as a possible way that science could be considered "unsound".
Not peer reviewed
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée means
Only food from certain regions of France can be called by that regional name
Kentucky Fried Chicken has translated its name into the French Poulet Frit Kentucky
Only in Quebec
What is the most accepted etymology of the Australian term "pom" or "pommy" for the English?
Rhyming slang between immigrant and pomegranate and then contracted to pom
Which reporting verb does NOT both report and judge simultaneously ?
She said that GMOs are dangerous to health
When the host denigrates the food he or she is offering, it can be understood as ......
a linguistic strategy to achieve positive politeness for the speaker from the guest
The word "Frogs", which is now used by the British to refer to the French, originally referred to the...
Dutch
belanda means
Dutch in Malay
According to Rosch, the .....................bird of North America is the robin
prototypical
In Eckert's study of Belten High School, which group used the most non-standard grammar?
"burned-out burnout" girls
Which are terms of gastro-nationalism?
- Greaser - Kraut - Boche
37. Which is the branding triangle
- product packaging/design - brand name - product logo
Johnston & Baumann (2007) argue that food writers like Michael Pollan generate status differences by stressing the importance in food choice of ........
Authenticity and exoticism
Which term does not mean the same as the other three words?
BSE
Which statement is NOT true about Freedman & Jurafsky's study?
Cheaper chips contain trans-fats
Which word has NOT been used to refer to kiwifruit?
Durian
Which is a performative direct speech act?
Compliments to the chef
Which is NOT a true statement about the word "nature"?
Only recently has nature been considered in a spiritual context, deserving respect and admiration and so the movement to capitalize it.
Which is a FALSE statement about the experiment on Russian blues?
Participants were shown 5 shades of blue
The translation from the English "classic sandwich" into the French,"sandwich classique" and "Snackwich Sandwich" into "Sandwich Snackwich" are all examples in French of....
Post-determination
Which of the following statements is an example of the inclusive use of 'we'?
Student to Student: "Which exercises are we supposed to do for homework?"
According to Dan Jurafsky's article Dessert, which statement is NOT true?
The Chinese eat raw vegetables like bell peppers and carrots and lettuce between courses
Which is an example of historicity?
The chips that built our company
Which sentence does NOT contain a metaphor"?
The city of Chicago is located in northern Illinois
Which is the best description of the food metaphor in: There are just limitless channels serving up an undemanding diet of pap
The content of thought is food
In the study by Ochs & Taylor about family dinner conversations, which statement is FALSE?
The mother is the family judge
What is the etymology of kangaroo?
The name for a large gray marsupial in Guugu Yimithirr
Which is NOT an argument made by Deutscher for the linguistic determination of spatial thinking?
The relation between language and spatial thinking is correlation NOT causation
Based on the following exchange, which statement is TRUE? BOBBY: I'll have an omelet, no potatoes. Give me tomatoes instead, and wheat toast instead of rolls. WAITRESS No substitutions.
The waitress fails to use a negative politeness strategy
Which is the best definition of facework?
The way that language is addressed to the face-wants of others
Gumperz found that English workers at Heathrow were offended by Indian kitchen staff because ...
They used downward intonation when they offered gravy
In her exploration of rice as a central metaphor in Japanese culture, anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney mentions several beliefs. Which one is NOT a Japanese belief?
Throwing rice at weddings brings good fortune and fertility to the bride and groom.
In Gurr-goni, the Australian aboriginal language. the word for airplane "erriplen" is which gender?
Vegetable
Which is an example of syncope"?
Worcester sauce
Brand names like Nona Isa, Uncle Ben's, Aunt Jemima derive their names from the donor field of.....?
family
Which of the following statements is true according to Su (2002) about the conceptual metaphor THOUGHT is FOOD in Chinese. 92% of metaphors in Chinese are taken from the source domains of....
flavor and digestion
According to Coco Krumme's article on wine descriptors, which kinds of words would you most likely find on a cheap bottle of wine?
fruity, clean
Fagolosi, frappuccino, and ginormous are all examples of how brand names play with......?
graphic structure
Which is a hooray word?
growth
Which is NOT a dead metaphor?
half-baked ideas
Which is NOT considered a feature of a person's dialect?
handwriting
The pronunciation the words: pierced-ear earrings, library, and February provide examples of..
haplology
Persian speakers use the expression sharmandam when ...
inviting guests to the dinner table
Which of the following words appears more often in restaurant menus in rich neighborhoods?
mango
In Freedman & Jurafsky's study, which is NOT a feature of distinction?
naturalness
In Chinese, the word sung can be translated as
non-starch
What kind of cultural capital is food?
objectified
Which phrase is an example of negative semantic prosody?
overrun by
Which of the following words has a scientific definition?
plant
Chicken McNuggetts and Nutrigrain contain examples of.... ?
prefixation
Classifying a bird as [+ ANIMAL] [+LAYS EGGS], [+WINGS] is a notational system based on what are called
semantic features
Strozzapreti is a member of which pasta family?
spaghetti
Spaghetti, rigatoni and kleenex all contain examples of .....?
suffixation
In the conceptual metaphor ARGUMENT is WAR, war is....
the source domain
