ANT 3610 Questions with CORRECT Answers
Question:
What is linguistic Anthropology and its object of study?
Answer:
The study of the semantics and pragmatics of language to better understand social and
cultural issues
Question:
List the 5 basic components of language. Which have been of interest to linguistic
anthropologists?
Answer:
1. phonology: sound 2. morphology: internal structures of words 3. syntax: structure of
sentences 4. semantics: meaning in language 5. pragmatics: language use
Question:
Explain Chompsky's approach to language and how its contrasts to linguistic
anthropologist's.
Answer:
Competence, the abstract and usually unconscious knowledge of a language, and
performance, the putting into practice of a language.
Question:
Gestures and sign languages they're different!!!
Answer:
channels or modes, including speech, gestures sign language, whistles, song,
illustrations, and writing
Question:
Kuster's argument in "Deaf on the Lifeline of Mumbai"
Answer:
creating a typology misses the point of multimodality. Thinking about interactions as
complex ensembles in which the combination of modes adds up to more than the sum
of their parts.
, Question:
The idea of emergence, which originated in biology, is that:
Answer:
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Question:
All words are examples of indexicality.
Answer:
False
Question:
In Goffman's model of communication, the role of the person whose opinions are
expressed is called the:
Answer:
Principal
Question:
Which of the following is not an acceptable research method in linguistic anthropology?
Answer:
Surreptitiously recording students having a naturally occurring conversation in a hallway
outside of class.
Question:
Since linguistic anthropologists are primarily interested in studying language, they need
not consider ethical guidelines in their methodology.
Answer:
False
Question:
Sociolinguist John Baugh's study of linguistic profiling is an example of an experimental
method frequently used to study language ideologies. This method is called:
Answer:
matched guise test
Question:
What is linguistic Anthropology and its object of study?
Answer:
The study of the semantics and pragmatics of language to better understand social and
cultural issues
Question:
List the 5 basic components of language. Which have been of interest to linguistic
anthropologists?
Answer:
1. phonology: sound 2. morphology: internal structures of words 3. syntax: structure of
sentences 4. semantics: meaning in language 5. pragmatics: language use
Question:
Explain Chompsky's approach to language and how its contrasts to linguistic
anthropologist's.
Answer:
Competence, the abstract and usually unconscious knowledge of a language, and
performance, the putting into practice of a language.
Question:
Gestures and sign languages they're different!!!
Answer:
channels or modes, including speech, gestures sign language, whistles, song,
illustrations, and writing
Question:
Kuster's argument in "Deaf on the Lifeline of Mumbai"
Answer:
creating a typology misses the point of multimodality. Thinking about interactions as
complex ensembles in which the combination of modes adds up to more than the sum
of their parts.
, Question:
The idea of emergence, which originated in biology, is that:
Answer:
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Question:
All words are examples of indexicality.
Answer:
False
Question:
In Goffman's model of communication, the role of the person whose opinions are
expressed is called the:
Answer:
Principal
Question:
Which of the following is not an acceptable research method in linguistic anthropology?
Answer:
Surreptitiously recording students having a naturally occurring conversation in a hallway
outside of class.
Question:
Since linguistic anthropologists are primarily interested in studying language, they need
not consider ethical guidelines in their methodology.
Answer:
False
Question:
Sociolinguist John Baugh's study of linguistic profiling is an example of an experimental
method frequently used to study language ideologies. This method is called:
Answer:
matched guise test
