ANTHROPOLOGY MIDTERM 1 (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Where did Malinowski conduct his research? Ans✓✓✓Trobriand
Islands, Papua New Guinea
participant observation Ans✓✓✓long-term immersion in the community
where they learn the language, and participating in as much of the
people's lives as possible and allowed
kula Ans✓✓✓exchange in which prestige items (as necklaces and arm
shells) are ceremoniously exchanged with a concomitant trade in useful
goods
Malinowski's theory of functionalism Ans✓✓✓Human beings have a set
of universal biological needs and various customs and institutions are
developed to fulfill those needs.
Linguistic Anthropology Ans✓✓✓the study of patterns of language used
in social and cultural contexts
Adaptation Ans✓✓✓refers to a natural process organisms undergo to
achieve a beneficial adjustment to an available environment AND the
results of that process
,Types of Anthropological Linguistics (6) Ans✓✓✓- Descriptive or
Structural Linguistics (speaking)
- Historical linguistics (language change through time)
- Relationship between language and culture
- Socio-Linguistics
- Discourse
- Gender
Design Features of Human Language Ans✓✓✓- Openness
- Displacement
- Arbitrariness
- Duality of Patterning
- Semanticity
- Prevarication
Openness Ans✓✓✓ability to create new languages, words, concepts
Displacement Ans✓✓✓can talk about absent or non-existent objects,
can talk about the past or future
Arbitrariness Ans✓✓✓there is no necessary link between a particular
sound in a language and a particular meaning
, duality of patterning Ans✓✓✓phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics
Phronology Ans✓✓✓sounds
Morphology Ans✓✓✓units of meanings
Syntax Ans✓✓✓Sentence structure
Semantics Ans✓✓✓Meaning of words and sentences
Pragmatics Ans✓✓✓the use, function, or purpose of communication
Semanticity Ans✓✓✓linguistic signals are associated with aspects of the
physical, cultural, and social world of speakers
prevarication Ans✓✓✓linguistic messages can be false or meaningless
Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis Ans✓✓✓Language influences our thoughts and
the way we perceive and experience the world
Who discovered non-verbal communication? Ans✓✓✓Marcel Mauss
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Where did Malinowski conduct his research? Ans✓✓✓Trobriand
Islands, Papua New Guinea
participant observation Ans✓✓✓long-term immersion in the community
where they learn the language, and participating in as much of the
people's lives as possible and allowed
kula Ans✓✓✓exchange in which prestige items (as necklaces and arm
shells) are ceremoniously exchanged with a concomitant trade in useful
goods
Malinowski's theory of functionalism Ans✓✓✓Human beings have a set
of universal biological needs and various customs and institutions are
developed to fulfill those needs.
Linguistic Anthropology Ans✓✓✓the study of patterns of language used
in social and cultural contexts
Adaptation Ans✓✓✓refers to a natural process organisms undergo to
achieve a beneficial adjustment to an available environment AND the
results of that process
,Types of Anthropological Linguistics (6) Ans✓✓✓- Descriptive or
Structural Linguistics (speaking)
- Historical linguistics (language change through time)
- Relationship between language and culture
- Socio-Linguistics
- Discourse
- Gender
Design Features of Human Language Ans✓✓✓- Openness
- Displacement
- Arbitrariness
- Duality of Patterning
- Semanticity
- Prevarication
Openness Ans✓✓✓ability to create new languages, words, concepts
Displacement Ans✓✓✓can talk about absent or non-existent objects,
can talk about the past or future
Arbitrariness Ans✓✓✓there is no necessary link between a particular
sound in a language and a particular meaning
, duality of patterning Ans✓✓✓phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics
Phronology Ans✓✓✓sounds
Morphology Ans✓✓✓units of meanings
Syntax Ans✓✓✓Sentence structure
Semantics Ans✓✓✓Meaning of words and sentences
Pragmatics Ans✓✓✓the use, function, or purpose of communication
Semanticity Ans✓✓✓linguistic signals are associated with aspects of the
physical, cultural, and social world of speakers
prevarication Ans✓✓✓linguistic messages can be false or meaningless
Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis Ans✓✓✓Language influences our thoughts and
the way we perceive and experience the world
Who discovered non-verbal communication? Ans✓✓✓Marcel Mauss
