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Midterm Study guide- Spring 2016

NB.Format of exam- there will be a number of short essays (10points), three essays -type questions (30 points) and 20 multiple-choice (10 points).

I. Short questions. Be sure to be able to define or explain the following terms / concepts and also illustrate your answers with some examples.

· Emic and Etic perspectives

· Linguistic Relativity

· Ethnocentrism/ Cultural Relativism

· The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

· Weak and strong forms of Whorf- hypothesis

· Rich point / Endgendered Languages

· Conversational styles of men and women

· Ritual oppositions and conversational rituals

II. In your preparation pay attention to the ff essay questions:

· How different is Linguistic anthropology from the study of Linguistics?

· What according to Franz Boas is the study of language so important for anthropologists, especially in the context of ethnographic research?

· What is communicative competence? How different is it from Linguistic competence?

· What is linguistic determinism?

· Explain Noam Chomsky’s notion of a universal grammar?

· What is Dell Hymes’s Ethnography of speaking model?

· How arbitrary is language?

· Pidgin Languages.