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11 Cards in this Set
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Folk Taxonomy |
a vernacular naming system that can be contrasted with scientific taxonomy. Face abandonment as native speakers conform to languages that are globally dominant. Generated from social knowledge |
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Cultural Knowledge |
The Monchaks will lose by relocating to urban areas and giving up their ancestral tongue is cultural knowledge. How to live the traditional way that has sustained them up till now and how to preserve remembered histories central to their identity as a people. |
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Dialects |
When speaker of the same language develop different variation of pronunciation, grammar and vocabularies because of the region they live in. |
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Mobile Week |
refers to the terms used to express time that is in constant flux like yesterday, tomorrow or today. |
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isogloss |
The lines on a map that display the boundaries of a dialect. |
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Idiolect |
A single speakers dialect/lexicon. No two speakers have the same idiolect. |
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Environmental Calendar |
Different cultures depending on different aspect of their environment and culture to provide the time and date as long as they could decipher the linguistic attributes of their language. Tuvon's using lunar phases to tell what day it is is an example |
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Language shift |
The process by which younger people in a community choose to not speak the ancestral language and conform to the dominant language instead. |
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style |
Determines the level of formality you use with any given person because of the relationship you share. |
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register |
Using the appropriate language for whoever your addressing and choosing to either filter your vocabulary or emphasize certain words that only those in that discourse community would understand. |
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Feature |
Word choices in a dialect that have equivalents in other dialects. Pale vs. Bucket Pop vs. Soda Cart vs Buggie |
