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22 Cards in this Set
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Communication
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The conveying of meaningful messages from one person, animal, or insect to another.
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Language
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A form of communication that is a systematic set of learned and shared symbols and signs shared among a group and passed on from generation to generation.
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Dialect
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A variety of language associated with a region, social class, or ethnic group.
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Productivity
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A feature of human language that offers the ability to communicate many messages efficiently.
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Displacement
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A feature of human language that allows people to talk about events in the past and future.
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Phomeme
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A sound that makes a difference for meaning in a language.
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Ethnosemantics
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The study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentence in particular cultural contexts.
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Sign language
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A form of communication that uses mainly hand movements to convey messages.
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Critical media anthropology
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An approach within the cross-cultural stdy of media that asks to what degree access to its messages its liberating or controlling, and whose interests the media serve.
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Digital divide
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Social inequality in access to new and emerging information technology, notably access to up-to-date computers, the Internet, and training related to their use.
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Sapir-Whoft hypothesis
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A theory in linguistic anthropology that says language determines thought.
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Sociolinguistics
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A theory in linguistic anthropology that says that culture and society and a person's social position determine language.
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Critical discourse analysis
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The study of the relations of power and inequality in language.
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Tag question
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A question seeking affirmation, placed at the end of a sentence.
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Language family
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Language descended from a parent language.
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Khipu
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Cords of knotted strings used during the Inca empire for keeping accounts and recording events.
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Pidgin
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A contact language that blends elements of at least two languages and that emerges when people with different languages need to communicate.
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Creole
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A language directly descended from a pidgin but possessing s own native speakers and involving linguistic expansion and elaboration.
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Global language or world language
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A language spoken widely throughout the world and in diverse cultural contexts often replacing indigenous languages.
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Language shift or language decay
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Condition of a language in which speakers adopt a new language for most situations, begin to use their native language only in certain contexts, may be only semi-fluent and have limited vocabulary in their native language.
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Language endangerment
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A stage in language decline when a language has fewer than 10,000 speakers.
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Language extinction
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A situation, either gradual or sudden, in which language speakers abandon their native language in favor of a new language to the extent that the native language loses functions and now longer has competent users.
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