ANT3610 FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
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What is linguistic Anthropology and its object of study? - Answers -The study of the
semantics and pragmatics of language to better understand social and cultural issues
List the 5 basic components of language. Which have been of interest to linguistic
anthropologists? - Answers -1. phonology: sound
2. morphology: internal structures of words
3. syntax: structure of sentences
4. semantics: meaning in language
5. pragmatics: language use
Define multifunctionality - Answers -Refers to all the different kinds of work that
language does. (Ahearn 21). Language is dynamic.
Define language ideologies - Answers -"attitudes, opinions, beliefs, or theories that we
all have about language." (Ahearn 23).
1. almost always serve the interests of a specific social or cultural group.
2. people can belong to many different social groups simultaneously and therefor can
have multiple ideologies
3. People may be more or less aware f their language ideologies
4. Peoples language ideologies mediate between social structures and forms of talk.
This bridges micro-level speech and macro-level social structures.
Define practice - Answers -language, culture, and society all have a pre-existing reality
but at the same time are very much the products of individual humans' words and
actions
Define indexicality - Answers -Identifying the precise way in which language and social
relations intersect
emerges from Pierce's idea of semiotics
Explain Chompsky's approach to language and how its contrasts to linguistic
anthropologist's. - Answers -Competence, the abstract and usually unconscious
knowledge of a language, and performance, the putting into practice of a language.
DeSaussure - Answers -Similar ideology to Chompsky. Makes a connection between
langue, the language system in abstract, and parole, everyday speech.
Semiotics - Answers -the study of signs and symbols
, - Icon: refers to object by means of similarity
- Index: refers to its object in a dynamic connection between the object and person
- Symbol: Refers to its object by virtue of convention or habit
multimodality - Answers -indexicality occurs across various overlapping channels or
modes, including speech, gestures sign language, whistles, song, illustrations, and
writing
Gestures and sign languages - Answers -they're different!!!
gestures compliment verbal communication
Sign languages are fully developed languages with their own phonetics, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
typology of gestures - Answers -1. Iconics: resemble that which is being described
verbally
2. Metaphorics: gestural representations of more abstract concepts. Often grouped with
iconics in a field called representational.
3. Dietics: pointing gestures
4. Beats:no discernible meaning
Kuster's argument in "Deaf on the Lifeline of Mumbai" - Answers -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.
Deaf men create communities on Mumbai's train system through an elaborate use of
space.
Goffman's concept of "footing" - Answers -The role of speaker can be broken down into
three roles:
1. Animator: animates the words, regardless of who wrote them
2. Author: composed the words
3. Principle: Believes the words, their opinions are the ones being expressed
Whistled Speech - Answers -Usually found in mountainous regions. Based directly on
spoken language.
examples include Sochiapan Chinantec of Oaxaca and Sylbo Gomero of the Canary
Islands
Double voiced discourse - Answers -having two levels to the meaning of the situation ;
speaking to two audiences at one
(Fallon hashtag skit)
ACCURATE ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATED
What is linguistic Anthropology and its object of study? - Answers -The study of the
semantics and pragmatics of language to better understand social and cultural issues
List the 5 basic components of language. Which have been of interest to linguistic
anthropologists? - Answers -1. phonology: sound
2. morphology: internal structures of words
3. syntax: structure of sentences
4. semantics: meaning in language
5. pragmatics: language use
Define multifunctionality - Answers -Refers to all the different kinds of work that
language does. (Ahearn 21). Language is dynamic.
Define language ideologies - Answers -"attitudes, opinions, beliefs, or theories that we
all have about language." (Ahearn 23).
1. almost always serve the interests of a specific social or cultural group.
2. people can belong to many different social groups simultaneously and therefor can
have multiple ideologies
3. People may be more or less aware f their language ideologies
4. Peoples language ideologies mediate between social structures and forms of talk.
This bridges micro-level speech and macro-level social structures.
Define practice - Answers -language, culture, and society all have a pre-existing reality
but at the same time are very much the products of individual humans' words and
actions
Define indexicality - Answers -Identifying the precise way in which language and social
relations intersect
emerges from Pierce's idea of semiotics
Explain Chompsky's approach to language and how its contrasts to linguistic
anthropologist's. - Answers -Competence, the abstract and usually unconscious
knowledge of a language, and performance, the putting into practice of a language.
DeSaussure - Answers -Similar ideology to Chompsky. Makes a connection between
langue, the language system in abstract, and parole, everyday speech.
Semiotics - Answers -the study of signs and symbols
, - Icon: refers to object by means of similarity
- Index: refers to its object in a dynamic connection between the object and person
- Symbol: Refers to its object by virtue of convention or habit
multimodality - Answers -indexicality occurs across various overlapping channels or
modes, including speech, gestures sign language, whistles, song, illustrations, and
writing
Gestures and sign languages - Answers -they're different!!!
gestures compliment verbal communication
Sign languages are fully developed languages with their own phonetics, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
typology of gestures - Answers -1. Iconics: resemble that which is being described
verbally
2. Metaphorics: gestural representations of more abstract concepts. Often grouped with
iconics in a field called representational.
3. Dietics: pointing gestures
4. Beats:no discernible meaning
Kuster's argument in "Deaf on the Lifeline of Mumbai" - Answers -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.
Deaf men create communities on Mumbai's train system through an elaborate use of
space.
Goffman's concept of "footing" - Answers -The role of speaker can be broken down into
three roles:
1. Animator: animates the words, regardless of who wrote them
2. Author: composed the words
3. Principle: Believes the words, their opinions are the ones being expressed
Whistled Speech - Answers -Usually found in mountainous regions. Based directly on
spoken language.
examples include Sochiapan Chinantec of Oaxaca and Sylbo Gomero of the Canary
Islands
Double voiced discourse - Answers -having two levels to the meaning of the situation ;
speaking to two audiences at one
(Fallon hashtag skit)
