LING 115 FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Apologizing is an example of - Correct Answers -Negative Politeness
Making a request is an example of - Correct Answers -A Face Threatening Act
Minimizing a request is an example of - Correct Answers -Negative Politeness
Using someone's first name or a nickname is an example of - Correct Answers -Positive
Politeness
Why would a superior uses a V-form of address with a subordinate, and allow the
subordinate to use a T-form back? - Correct Answers -the superior is showing the
subordinate respect so as to not offend them
The form of address that best communicates solidarity is - Correct Answers -first name
only
Using the V-form of address is always more polite. (T/F) - Correct Answers -false
The polite way for people of the same status to address eachother (T-form or V-form) is
different from one culture to another. (T/F) - Correct Answers -true
Title Only is the form of address that communicates the most power. (T/F) - Correct
Answers -true
A language with honorifics will use different ________________ depending on how
much solidarity vs. power the speaker wishes to communicate. - Correct Answers -
forms of address, nouns, and verbs
According to the theory of Linguistic Determinism, a speaker of Javanese - Correct
Answers -Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments about everyone he/she
meets.
Classifiers are - Correct Answers -words that are used to indicate the type of noun
(usually categorized by shape) when counting.
The Navajo children in the classifer experiment - Correct Answers -Behaved the same
as the English speakers from Boston.
Why, most likely, can speakers of Tzotzil identify compass directions better than
speakers of English? - Correct Answers -Their language uses compass directions, as
opposed to left and right, to indicate relative location. (Ex: The cup is to the east of the
, plate.), Speakers of Tzotzil usually stay in a narrow geographic area their whole life and
spend a lot of time outside where there are distinctive geographic features to orient
themselves by.
Edward Sapir was - Correct Answers -a Yale professor who focused on how having
different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.
Inuit (Eskimo) has over 40 words for snow. (T/F) - Correct Answers -False
Arabic doesn't have a generic word for camel, but rather a number of more specific
words such as "female camel." (T/F) - Correct Answers -False
If you speak a language that calls both this color (blue ink) and this color (purple ink)
"blue," under lingusitic relativity, you might be inclined to say that the text of this
sentence is written in only one color (in addition to black). (T/F) - Correct Answers -True
Under the theory of linguistic relativity, a speaker of Javanese is more likely to notice
markers of social status than a speaker of French. (T/F) - Correct Answers -True
The best version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is Linguistic Relativity. (T/F) - Correct
Answers -True
Gender, as used in socio-linguistic research, is largely __________ - Correct Answers -
a socially defined distinction.
Which of the following is a common problem that underlies almost all research on
gender and language? - Correct Answers -Most research on gender and language
seeks to explain why women speak differently, using the men's data as a baseline.
Women are more likely than men to use T or TLN to address someone and are also
more likely to receive FN when being addressed. Which of the following best explains
this data? - Correct Answers -Women are behaving like subordinates.
Women are more likely than men to use T or TLN to address someone. Which of the
following best explains this fact under Holmes' theory of conversational goals? - Correct
Answers -Women emphasize solidarity in a conversation and so use a lot of negative
politeness to soften Face Threatening Acts.
Which of the following is a Face Threatening Act? - Correct Answers -a request
Which of the following is an indirect command? - Correct Answers -Would you mind
signing this?
Tag questions do what? - Correct Answers -always indicate that the speaker wants
feedback from the hearer.
ANSWERS
Apologizing is an example of - Correct Answers -Negative Politeness
Making a request is an example of - Correct Answers -A Face Threatening Act
Minimizing a request is an example of - Correct Answers -Negative Politeness
Using someone's first name or a nickname is an example of - Correct Answers -Positive
Politeness
Why would a superior uses a V-form of address with a subordinate, and allow the
subordinate to use a T-form back? - Correct Answers -the superior is showing the
subordinate respect so as to not offend them
The form of address that best communicates solidarity is - Correct Answers -first name
only
Using the V-form of address is always more polite. (T/F) - Correct Answers -false
The polite way for people of the same status to address eachother (T-form or V-form) is
different from one culture to another. (T/F) - Correct Answers -true
Title Only is the form of address that communicates the most power. (T/F) - Correct
Answers -true
A language with honorifics will use different ________________ depending on how
much solidarity vs. power the speaker wishes to communicate. - Correct Answers -
forms of address, nouns, and verbs
According to the theory of Linguistic Determinism, a speaker of Javanese - Correct
Answers -Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments about everyone he/she
meets.
Classifiers are - Correct Answers -words that are used to indicate the type of noun
(usually categorized by shape) when counting.
The Navajo children in the classifer experiment - Correct Answers -Behaved the same
as the English speakers from Boston.
Why, most likely, can speakers of Tzotzil identify compass directions better than
speakers of English? - Correct Answers -Their language uses compass directions, as
opposed to left and right, to indicate relative location. (Ex: The cup is to the east of the
, plate.), Speakers of Tzotzil usually stay in a narrow geographic area their whole life and
spend a lot of time outside where there are distinctive geographic features to orient
themselves by.
Edward Sapir was - Correct Answers -a Yale professor who focused on how having
different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.
Inuit (Eskimo) has over 40 words for snow. (T/F) - Correct Answers -False
Arabic doesn't have a generic word for camel, but rather a number of more specific
words such as "female camel." (T/F) - Correct Answers -False
If you speak a language that calls both this color (blue ink) and this color (purple ink)
"blue," under lingusitic relativity, you might be inclined to say that the text of this
sentence is written in only one color (in addition to black). (T/F) - Correct Answers -True
Under the theory of linguistic relativity, a speaker of Javanese is more likely to notice
markers of social status than a speaker of French. (T/F) - Correct Answers -True
The best version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is Linguistic Relativity. (T/F) - Correct
Answers -True
Gender, as used in socio-linguistic research, is largely __________ - Correct Answers -
a socially defined distinction.
Which of the following is a common problem that underlies almost all research on
gender and language? - Correct Answers -Most research on gender and language
seeks to explain why women speak differently, using the men's data as a baseline.
Women are more likely than men to use T or TLN to address someone and are also
more likely to receive FN when being addressed. Which of the following best explains
this data? - Correct Answers -Women are behaving like subordinates.
Women are more likely than men to use T or TLN to address someone. Which of the
following best explains this fact under Holmes' theory of conversational goals? - Correct
Answers -Women emphasize solidarity in a conversation and so use a lot of negative
politeness to soften Face Threatening Acts.
Which of the following is a Face Threatening Act? - Correct Answers -a request
Which of the following is an indirect command? - Correct Answers -Would you mind
signing this?
Tag questions do what? - Correct Answers -always indicate that the speaker wants
feedback from the hearer.
