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"An area defined by local, ordinary folks' subjective perceptions reflecting their feelings & images about key place characteristics." |
Vernacular Region |
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States that as time and distance increases the cultural or spatial interactions between two areas will decline. |
Distance Decay |
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When a person or group changes and adapts enough to a new culture to survive in a new area or situation. |
Acculturation |
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Describes the effects of new technology and transportations making places seem closer than they actually are. |
Time-Space Compression |
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The innovation moves outward while the people or tech causing the diffusion remain at the hearth. |
Expansion Diffusion |
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Innovation spread outward from the hearth, coming into contact with everyone in a widening circle. |
Contagious Diffusion |
Bubonic Plague |
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Innovations spreads from authority figures or more connected people to less powerful or less connected ones. |
Hierarchical Diffusion |
Fashion originating in Paris spreading to world cities. |
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Innovation is not completely absorbed into the new place. Rather, a trait or idea in the innovation stimulates the new place. |
Stimulus Diffusion |
McDonald hamburgers substitute beef with veggies. |
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Innovation spreads outward by people at the hearth relocating to other areas. |
Relocation Diffusion. |
Foods native to America were diffused to Great Britain. |
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Identity or relations between a group of people who are connected by a common culture, or ancestry. |
Ethnicity |
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The physical categorization of humans based on, for example, skin color. This is different from ethnicity because this includes biological differences, rather than cultural differences. |
Race |
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Hostile attitudes toward a race because of their certain physical characteristics, like skin color. |
Racism |
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A set of sounds, combination of sound, & symbols that are used for communication. |
Language |
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The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. |
Culture |
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Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the original form |
Dialect |
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A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. |
Isogloss |
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Group of languages with a shared, but fairly distinct origin. |
Language Family |
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Divisions within a language family where the shared interest are more definite and the origin is more recent. |
Subfamilies |
Spanish and Italian - Romance Languages |
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Spreads through most of southeast Asia, and China. |
Sino-Tibetan Family |
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When two groups of people with different languages meet, a new language with some characteristics of each is formed. |
Pidgin Language |
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A pidgin that has evolved to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it. |
Creole Language |
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A language that is assigned to one country by it's government to tie all of the residents together and to let there be common ground when communicating. |
Official Language |
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When a language is no longer in use. |
Language Extinction |
Latin |
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Where two or more languages with many bilingual speakers borrow words, grammar, or syntax from each other. |
Language Convergence |
Spanglish |
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The spread of a certain language or language family. |
Language diffusion |
Indo-European languages spreading to Australia and north America. |
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A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce. |
Lingua Franca. |
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When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary. |
Pidgin Language |
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A pidgin language that gas developed a complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people. |
Creole Language |
Modern English |
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Language promoted as the norm for use in schools, government, and recognized by other states. |
Standard language |
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Language chosen to promote internal cohesion. |
Official Language |
English in Nigeria so that it will not favor a language in Nigeria. |
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Large group of people united by a common descent, history, culture, or language. |
Nation |
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Self-governing political entity. |
State |
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A single or multiple nations joined in a formal political union. |
Nation-State |
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Neutral country that is located between two conflicting countries. |
Buffer state |
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A country that is independent but still relies on another politically and economically. |
Satellite States |
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