APG 200 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
language (whether spoken, written, verbal or nonverbal) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Every social
interaction is mediated by ____________
socially - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Language is not a neutral medium for communication but rather a set
of __________ embedded practices
False ( The essence of language cannot be understood without reference to the particular social
contexts in which it is used) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language is not inherently social
constitute - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social contexts and linguistic practices mutually __________ each
other
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language should be studied not only as a mode of thinking but above
all as a cultural practice, that is a form of action that both presupposes and at the same time brings
about ways of being in the world
True (Through language people convey emotions, display or hide judgmental attitudes, reinforce or
sever social bonds and talk about language itself) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language is
multifunctional
Competence/langue - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the abstract and usually unconscious knowledge that one
has about the rules of a language, the language system in the abstract
Performance/ parole - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the putting into practice- sometimes imperfectly- of those
rules, everyday speech
Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In both the Chomsky and Saussurean approach, which is of
primary or sole interest for a science of language, competence or performance?
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F performance or parole is irrelevant in the Chomsky and Saussurean
approach
,When they claim they are only interested in competence and not in performance, is to miss the richness
and complexity of one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence therefore, - Some deny the
existence of any distinction at all between competence and performance (langue and parole), while
tohers give primacy to performance (parole), Still others expand the definition of competence to include
the ability to use language skillfully and appropriately in particular social contexts and many view
competence and performance as equally important - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Why do Linguist
anthropologists reject the Chomsky/Saussurean distinction between competence (langue) and
performance (parole)?
Linguistics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Abstract set of grammatical rules (detached from sociocultural
interaction)
Linguistic Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of language in sociocultural context and the
understanding that language is a form of social action
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmantics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the 5
basic components of language?
Phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of sound in language, In order to know a language, one
must be able to recognize and produce the sounds that are meaningful in that language, in the case of
sign languages, instead of sounds one must be able to recognize and produce the appropriate gestures
Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of the internal structure of words, in order to know a
language one must be able to use suffixes, prefixes, or infixes, in English for example one must know
how to create plurals by placing an "s" on the end of most words and must know what adding "un-" to
the beginning of a word does to its meaning
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of the structure of sentences, including the construction of
phases, clauses and the order of words, in order to know a language, one must be able to combine
subjects, verbs and objects in a grammatically correct way
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What area of language did Chomsky have the most influence?
, Semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of meaning in language, including analysis of the meanings
of words and sentences, in order to know a language, one must know how to construct and interpret
meanings
Pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of language use, of actual utterances, of how meanings
emerge in actual social contexts, this includes culturally and linguistically specific ways of structuring
narratives, performances or everyday conversations, in order to know a language, one must be able to
use language in socially and culturally appropriate ways
phonology, morphology, or syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most linguists focus primarily or solely on
which of the 3 components of language?
Semantics and pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most linguistic anthropologists study which 2
components of language?
phonology, morphology, and syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Linguistic anthropologists consider which
components of language to be so fundamentally affected by the social contexts in which these aspects
of language are acquired and used that to consider them in isolation from these contexts is at best
artificial and at worst inaccurate
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F For the linguistic anthropologist every aspect of language is socially
influenced and culturally meaningful
Multifunctionality, Language ideologies, Practice, Indexicality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the 4
main key terms of linguistic anthropology?
Multifunctionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Language is thought to be a way to report events or to label
objects or concepts, language is much more than reporting or labeling however, people accomplish
many things with words,• Even the simplest spoken and written linguistic interactions are
multifunctional, Refers to all the different kinds of work that language does
Referential, expressive, conative, phatic, poetic, linguistic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are Jakobson's
6 functions of language? (Multifunctionality)
language (whether spoken, written, verbal or nonverbal) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Every social
interaction is mediated by ____________
socially - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Language is not a neutral medium for communication but rather a set
of __________ embedded practices
False ( The essence of language cannot be understood without reference to the particular social
contexts in which it is used) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language is not inherently social
constitute - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social contexts and linguistic practices mutually __________ each
other
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language should be studied not only as a mode of thinking but above
all as a cultural practice, that is a form of action that both presupposes and at the same time brings
about ways of being in the world
True (Through language people convey emotions, display or hide judgmental attitudes, reinforce or
sever social bonds and talk about language itself) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F Language is
multifunctional
Competence/langue - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the abstract and usually unconscious knowledge that one
has about the rules of a language, the language system in the abstract
Performance/ parole - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the putting into practice- sometimes imperfectly- of those
rules, everyday speech
Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In both the Chomsky and Saussurean approach, which is of
primary or sole interest for a science of language, competence or performance?
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F performance or parole is irrelevant in the Chomsky and Saussurean
approach
,When they claim they are only interested in competence and not in performance, is to miss the richness
and complexity of one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence therefore, - Some deny the
existence of any distinction at all between competence and performance (langue and parole), while
tohers give primacy to performance (parole), Still others expand the definition of competence to include
the ability to use language skillfully and appropriately in particular social contexts and many view
competence and performance as equally important - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Why do Linguist
anthropologists reject the Chomsky/Saussurean distinction between competence (langue) and
performance (parole)?
Linguistics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Abstract set of grammatical rules (detached from sociocultural
interaction)
Linguistic Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of language in sociocultural context and the
understanding that language is a form of social action
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmantics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the 5
basic components of language?
Phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of sound in language, In order to know a language, one
must be able to recognize and produce the sounds that are meaningful in that language, in the case of
sign languages, instead of sounds one must be able to recognize and produce the appropriate gestures
Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of the internal structure of words, in order to know a
language one must be able to use suffixes, prefixes, or infixes, in English for example one must know
how to create plurals by placing an "s" on the end of most words and must know what adding "un-" to
the beginning of a word does to its meaning
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of the structure of sentences, including the construction of
phases, clauses and the order of words, in order to know a language, one must be able to combine
subjects, verbs and objects in a grammatically correct way
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What area of language did Chomsky have the most influence?
, Semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of meaning in language, including analysis of the meanings
of words and sentences, in order to know a language, one must know how to construct and interpret
meanings
Pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the study of language use, of actual utterances, of how meanings
emerge in actual social contexts, this includes culturally and linguistically specific ways of structuring
narratives, performances or everyday conversations, in order to know a language, one must be able to
use language in socially and culturally appropriate ways
phonology, morphology, or syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most linguists focus primarily or solely on
which of the 3 components of language?
Semantics and pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most linguistic anthropologists study which 2
components of language?
phonology, morphology, and syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Linguistic anthropologists consider which
components of language to be so fundamentally affected by the social contexts in which these aspects
of language are acquired and used that to consider them in isolation from these contexts is at best
artificial and at worst inaccurate
True - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅T/F For the linguistic anthropologist every aspect of language is socially
influenced and culturally meaningful
Multifunctionality, Language ideologies, Practice, Indexicality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the 4
main key terms of linguistic anthropology?
Multifunctionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Language is thought to be a way to report events or to label
objects or concepts, language is much more than reporting or labeling however, people accomplish
many things with words,• Even the simplest spoken and written linguistic interactions are
multifunctional, Refers to all the different kinds of work that language does
Referential, expressive, conative, phatic, poetic, linguistic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are Jakobson's
6 functions of language? (Multifunctionality)
