A group of people who share one or more varieties of language and the rules for using any or all of those varieties in everyday communication is called a:
a. linguistic community.
b. speech community.
c. community of practice.
d. competent community.
b
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Paleoanthropology is the study of human evolution.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Charles Darwin
a. grew up in modest circumstances. b. began to doubt the fixity of species during a voyage around the world in the 1830s. c. received no formal education. d. spent two years in Africa where he developed the theory of natural selection. e. was a physician who studied natural history as a hobby.
The gender discrepancy in education in __________ is the highest of all countries in the Pacific region
a. Papua New Guinea b. Japan c. New Zealand d. Thailand
Anthropologist Edmund Leach (1955) observed that, depending on the society, several different kinds of rights are allocated by marriage. According to Leach, marriage can-but doesn't always-accomplish each of the following EXCEPT
A. give either or both spouses a monopoly in the sexuality of the other. B. give either or both spouses rights to the labor of the other. C. establish a socially significant "relationship of affinity" between spouses and their relatives. D. give either or both spouses rights over the other's property. E. give either or both spouses rights over the latent and manifest functions of the other.