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Chapter 20- Language and Culture 9 terms vherron89

Culture refers to all the ideas and assumptions about the nature
of things and people that we learn when become
members of social groups

Category A group with certain features in common and we can

think of the vocabulary we learn as inherited set of
category labels

Lexicalized "Expressed as a single word" May be expressed in one

language and not another. Ex- some languages may
have different words for types of "rain", colors, we have
five but another has only two color words

Kinship terms All languages have these but they don't all put family
members into categories in the same way. Ex.- father is
used not only for "male parent" but for "male parent's
brother". English--Uncle

Linguistic relativity The structure of our language must have influence on

how we perceive the world, shapes habitual thought

Linguistic determinism Language determines thought. English speakers use one

word for snow, whereas Eskimos have lots of different
words for snow

Sapir-Whorf Produced arguments that the languages of Native

Hypothesis Americans, such as the Hopi, led them to view the world
differently than those who spoke European Languages.
"Animate" and "inanimate" objects.

Non-lexicalized "Not expressed as a single word" Ex. fresh snow, powdery

snow

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Back-channels describes the use of words yeah, really? or sounds

hmmm, oh by listeners while someone else is speaking.
Used more by women

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