Anthropology Exam 2

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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
- Context dependent

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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.