ANT 3610 QUIZ QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

ANT 3610 QUIZ QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 A sign that refers to its object by virtue of convention or habit. Symbol Index Language ideology Pragmatics Semiosis - Answers Symbol In Jakobson's model of multifunctionality, when an utterance is directed at itself, the predominant function is: conative referential phatic poetic expressive - Answers poetic Which of the following is NOT one of four key terms introduced by Ahearn in chapter 1? Pragmatics Language ideology Multifunctionality Practice - Answers Pragmatics In Jakobson's model of multifunctionality, when an utterance is directed at the channel, the predominant function is: referential Phatic metalinguistic poetic - Answers Phatic The basic idea underlying practice theory is that: Structures produce language. Human actions give rise to language language is best acquire with repeated practice. Structures at the same time constrain and give rise to human actions. - Answers Structures at the same time constrain and give rise to human actions. All words are examples of indexicality - Answers True In Goffman's model of communication, the role of the person whose opinions are expressed is called the: Voicebox Principal Animator Author - Answers Principal A culturally-specific form of language socialization of infants in the United States is which of the following: ignoring infants until they learn to speak one-on-one conversations code-switching self-lowering theory of mind - Answers self-lowering AND (??? - one more answer, but I don't know) In Chomsky's view, a range of possible human languages hard-wired into the brain is called: language socialization "language" nodule universal grammar multilingualism environmental influence - Answers universal grammar Which of the following is not an acceptable research method in linguistic anthropology? Surreptitiously recording students having a naturally occurring conversation in a hallway outside of class. Creating a survey about multilingualism. Reading and analyzing 19th century love letters. Designing a matched guise test to measure subjects' language ideologies about the use of foreign languages in public places. Conducting participant observation research at a bar. - Answers Surreptitiously recording students having a naturally occurring conversation in a hallway outside of class. According to Basso, Apache children introduced joking in English about the "Whiteman" into their culture. This is an example of: All of these Language acquisition Universal Grammar code-switching - Answers All of these Where did Labov study speech communities? Boston New York London Mexico - Answers New York In his work with Yucatec Maya children in Mexico, John Lucy noticed that after the age of nine, Maya children tended to: focus more on shape than material composition refused to speak Yucatec Maya focus on material composition more than shape didn't pass false-belief tasks - Answers focus on material composition more than shape A good example of a whorfian effect is: Color classification in certain societies Language exogamy in the Vaupes There is no such thing as a "whorfian effect" Absolute vs. relative perceptions of space - Answers Color classification in certain societies AND Absolute vs. relative perceptions of space According to Jean Jackson, Vaupes speech areas are: Collections of language aggregates due to the practice of linguistic exogamy. Contain several communities of practice Made up of several smaller speech communities Nestled within a larger speech community - Answers Collections of language aggregates due to the practice of linguistic exogamy. AND Made up of several smaller speech communities Which of the following statements is NOT true about "theory of mind". All of these statements are true correlation does not indicate causation one of the most commonly conducted experiments in theory of mind research includes false-belief tasks theory of mind is the ability to read someone else's intentions, beliefs and desires - Answers All of these statements are true Through the selection of one language over another a speaker displays what is called "acts of identity", choosing the group with whom they wish to identify. True False - Answers True The view that scholars like Jack Goody maintain that the advent of literacy in a society will cause the same social and psychological effects is known as: evolutionary approach ideological approach autonomous approach sociolinguistic approach - Answers autonomous approach In contrast to Baron's article, the work of Jones and Schieffelin described by Ahearn in our textbook reveals that teenagers' increased use of be + like in their IM communications suggests: that IM conversation serve pragmatic functions and do not establish group identity. that the increased use of be + like in IM coincided with a decrease in the use of be + like in face-to-face conversations. That the increased use of be + like suggests creativity and the formation of a community because be + like resembles speech more than text. that teenagers are concerned with efficiency, not with expressivity. - Answers that the increased use of be + like in IM coincided with a decrease in the use of be + like in face-to-face conversations. According to Ahearn, literacy practices are defined as: The model that the advent of literacy in society will cause the same social effects, no matter the society A specific, observable occurrence where literacy has a role The ability to read and write The general cultural ways of utilizing written language - Answers The general cultural ways of utilizing written language Shirley Brice Heath's research on literacy practices among preschoolers in the Carolinas demonstrated that: Tracktown children were far more creative and better problem-solvers than Roadville and Maintown children. The ways in which children in different communities are socialized into orality and literacy had profound effect on their performance in school. Consistent with the autonomous model of literacy, all children started performing similarly once they had been socialized into reading. Maintown children had a distinct advantage over Roadville and Tracktown children because their parents were children. - Answers The ways in which children in different communities are socialized into orality and literacy had profound effect on their performance in school. Studies have decisively shown that men are more competitive and women are more cooperative. This is reflected in male and female speech patterns. True False - Answers False In Gapun, men are traditionally thought to be more rational and even-tempered than women. Because they are thought to be more progressive and "civilized", men prefer to speak in Taiap, the creole national language of Papua New Guinea. True False - Answers False Noam Chomsky posits that performance and context are central to our understanding of Universal Grammar. True False - Answers False According to Austin, the phrase "I now pronounce you spouses for life" is an example of: constatives Ilocution felicitous locution - Answers Ilocution Speech Act Theory originally came out of the work of __________ and the lectures published in the famous volume ________ - Answers . Answer 1: J.L. Austin Answer 2: How to Do Things With Words In the United States and Canada, 149 of the 187 Native languages are moribund. True False - Answers True The concerted effort to teach children an endangered language and to invest in its survival through education and promotion is called: language revival naive language rescue language revitalization - Answers language revitalization In the film, "The Linguists," the moribund language profiled in Siberia is called: Chulym Sora Kallawaya Chemehuevi - Answers Chulym African American English is a rule-governed register of English that displays its own phonology grammar pragmatics All of these - Answers All of these American [term], also known as the "one drop" rule, dictates that children born from mixed black and white couples be identified as black. - Answers hypodescent A sign that refers to its object by virtue of convention or habit. - Answers Symbol In Jakobson's model of multifunctionality, when an utterance is directed at itself, the predominant function is: - Answers Poetic Which of the following is NOT one of four key terms introduced by Ahearn in chapter 1? - Answers Pragmatics In Jakobson's model of multifunctionality, when an utterance is about language itself, the predominant function is: - Answers metalinguistic The basic idea underlying practice theory is that: - Answers Structures at the same time constrain and give rise to human actions. Language socialization is only relevant during childhood. - Answers False In Chomsky's view, a range of possible human languages hard-wired into the brain is called: - Answers Universal grammar