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16 Cards in this Set
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What is the Saphir Whorf hypothesis?
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Language shapes our concept of reality
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Euphemism
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An expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive to the listener than the word it replaces.
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Icon
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Signal that PHYSICALLY RESEMBLES what it refers to.
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Index
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sign that is DIRECTLY CONNECTED to what it refers to. DOES NOT RESEMBLE it.
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Symbol
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something that represents something else with NO RESEMBLANCE OR DIRECT RELATION TO THAT OBJECT.
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Body art?
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Body art is a non-verbal 'language' that communicates social information.
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Standard Language
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A standardized dialect of a particular language that has been given legal status.
said to be the most correct, considered educated. |
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DIglossia
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A situation in a society where there are two closely-related languages of different levels of prestige
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Ebonics
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vernacular black English
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Code Switching
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A linguistic term referring to alternation between two or more languages, dialects or registers.
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Code Switching
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-social tool
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Status producing mechanism
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An action or possession whose primary purpose is to enhance one's social status
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Symmetrical Reciprocity
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informal exchange of goods, labor services.
-an informal ECONOMIC SYSTEM |
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Symmetrical Reciprocity
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When someone gives to someone else expecting a fair return at some point, (no date)
a social obligation |
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Marcel Mauss
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influential book THE GIFT discussed reciprocity and gift economies among primitive societies.
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Kula Ring
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The Kula Ring is a a system of ceremonial gift exchange conducted by the people such as the Trobriand islanders.
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