Chapter 15 Practice Quiz

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. The following statement best illustrates the assertion that non-human primate call systems are said to be closed when compared to open human languages:

Non-human primates cannot emit a signal that has some features of one call and some of another correct incorrect

Non-human primates cannot use their call systems to suggest theories correct incorrect

Links between the sounds of calls and their meanings appear fixed from one non-human primate population to another correct incorrect

Non-human primates cannot use their call systems to discuss events that happened in the past correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. The following statement about non-verbal communication is NOT correct:

Non-verbal communication cannot be as effective as language in transmitting simple messages correct incorrect

Well over 60 per cent of our messages are communicated non-verbally correct incorrect

Many non-verbal signals are culture-specific correct incorrect

Non-verbal communication includes vocalizations such as laughing and sobbing correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is an example of the weaker version of linguistic relativity?

Colour term differences between English, Shona, and Bassa correct incorrect

Himba non-classification of green and blue as separate colours correct incorrect

Absence of blue from ancient Hebrew and Greek texts correct incorrect

Verb-orientation of Mi'kmaq language correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. A language, without native speakers, that develops when two groups with distinct native languages need to communicate and draw upon a dominant language to do so is called a ________.

fixed language correct incorrect

creole correct incorrect

mishmush correct incorrect

pidgin correct incorrect

Post-hermeneutic Referential Dialectic correct incorrect

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. Clifford Geertz noted that in Java a request like "Are you going to eat rice and cassava now?" ________.

communicated one's social position relative to the person to whom one is speaking correct incorrect

required the speaker to provide additional contextualizing phrases in order to be
polite correct incorrect

was avoided due to privacy concerns correct incorrect

indicated that the speaker and the person to whom one is speaking were going to share the meal correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. The use of pragmatics to understand how language is used is a step to help direct us to the bigger theme of the sentences used in a conversation, otherwise known as ________.

ethnopragmatics correct incorrect

discourse correct incorrect

proxemics correct incorrect

dialectics correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. What did the Canadian government do on June 11, 2008 with respect to Indigenous
peoples?

Apologized for the relocation of Inuit families from northern Quebec to the far north correct incorrect

Apologized for Europeans coming to North America correct incorrect

Apologized for the creation of the Indian Act correct incorrect

Apologized for the removal of the Inuit Disk List system correct incorrect

Apologized for the forcing of Indigenous peoples to attend residential schools, their treatment and abuse within those schools correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT an impact of colonial language pedagogy?

The division of colonies along linguistic lines correct incorrect

Emphasis on colonial languages over Indigenous languages correct incorrect

Emphasis on standardized learning outcomes correct incorrect

Improvement of student learning outcomes correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. How many distinct languages are spoken in the world today?

20,000 correct incorrect

7,000 correct incorrect

2,000 correct incorrect

100 correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. The limits of non-human primate closed-call systems include _______.

small amount of call forms used correct incorrect

lack of displacement from immediate subject correct incorrect

lack of arbitrariness correct incorrect

lack of grammar correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Symbolic language is a uniquely human language that permits us to communicate without barriers with one another.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Phonemes are sounds used to create morphemes.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Grammar alone creates sentences that have meaning.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. An icon is causally linked to that which it signifies.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. True understanding and use of language requires much cultural knowledge.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Over 60 per cent of our communication is non-verbal.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Some languages are more primitive than others.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The presence of bilingual people reflects linguistic determinism in structuring thought.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Asserting that Acadjonne is inferior to French would be an example of a language ideology.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Some languages do not change over time.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect