Sociolinguistics is helpful to anthropologists in understanding culture because:
a. People's speech varies depending on their position in a social structure or social relationship.
b. Speech is a constant, while social structure is variable.
c. Speech is always consistent within a social group.
d. The ways in which people speak determine their position in the social structure.
e. The distribution of irregular verbs can indicate the relative importance of different actions in a cultural system
A
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a. True b. False
Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of holism?
a. It involves biological and sociocultural aspects of humanity. b. It focuses on the study of many different aspects of the human experience from family structure to art. c. It studies how all forms of life are related and evolved out of each other. d. It studies all varieties of people wherever they are found. e. It involves the longest time frame for studying humans.
In general, the status of women
A. is higher in Yanomami society than it is among the Betsileo of Madagascar. B. rises as dependence on food production intensifies. C. is higher in societies in which males do most of the work in food production. D. is higher in matrilineal societies than it is in patrilineal societies. E. is higher among agriculturalists than it is among foragers.
Because children develop them, Derek Bickerton argues that ________ provide evidence of ________
a. pidgins; the superficiality of languages b. creoles; the deep structure of languages c. aphorisms; the grammar of language d. grammars; deep structure