In the following table ten terms of linguistic anthropology are used in applied sense.
In the following table, ten terms of linguistic anthropology are used in
an applied sense. Read the scenarios carefully and identify the
terms.
Scenarios |
Identification of Concept |
The teacher was explaining the students the unique rules of the Arabic language. He explained the basic outline of the parts of speech in Arabic and one of the ideal ways in which the sentence is structured. Identify the linguistic anthropological term for this. |
Sociolinguistics |
Hussain was telling his friends about the trip he has planned to
the mountains. But he is afraid that driving in the mountains may
cause an accident that may prove fatal to him. Because of this, he
is thinking about changing his plan. Which linguistic
anthropological term is explained here? |
Language and Culture |
For his anthropology term paper, Alina is working on linguistics
and focusing on grammar, classification, and arrangement of the
features of a language specifically at present times. Identify the
term for this phenomenon under linguistic anthropology. |
Levels of Complexity |
Faiq is an anthropology student who took linguistics as his major.
He is interested in the history and evolution of language through
different periods in history. Identify the linguistic
anthropological term for this. |
Language Families |
English is widely spoken all over the world but the way different
words and sentence patterns are used to talk about
the same thing is unique to each region. Identify the term for this
phenomenon under linguistic anthropology. |
Changes in Language |
Asma, an anthropology student is given the assignment to choose a
language and study the speech, sounds, and manual units and, how
they change in different contexts within and among languages. She
has to submit a detailed report on which sound combinations are
acceptable to form words in that language, and how different
languages use different meaningful sounds. Identify the term for
this phenomenon under linguistic anthropology. |
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
While studying anthropology, Ali found that a language is composed
of many small grammatical units of speech units, they can either be
a complete word, prefixes, suffixes, es, or a single letter that can
change the sense of the word. Which linguistic term is explained
here? |
Linking Language to Culture |
While doing her English homework Fatima was given a passage and was
asked to find out the single words that can convey the full meaning
of the word alone. She was asked to identify which linguistic
anthropological term. |
Cultural Emphasis |
When Christ went to Germany to study, she found out that there was
a huge variety in the language within the city. The language variety
used in formal/professional settings, such as in education,
politics, and the mass media was different than what was used in
everyday conversations and is spoken in more informal settings, such
as at home and with family/friends. Which linguistic anthropological
term is explained here? |
Language and Nationalism |
Zia lives in Jhang and speaks Punjabi as his first language. When
he visited Lahore he was amazed to see how the Punjabi language is
spoken differently there. The words were pronounced and articulated
so differently that he was unable to grasp
some words completely. Which linguistic anthropological term is explained here? |
Diglossia |
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