Politicians use words like "moral" or "courage" when referring to their own party or themselves and words like "pathetic" and "corrupt" to refer to their opponents. This is an example of:
a. the grammar of public discourse.
b. the changing tones of language.
c. taboos related to language.
d. how speech is an instrument of power.
D
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a. determined the mental maturity of the people who used it. b. was more sophisticated among "civilized" peoples. c. was a model, or mental map, that speakers had for that particular part of the world. d. could help elders in that culture to resist the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Which of the following is NOT an element of the neo-Darwinian synthesis?
a. the use of newly introduced dating techniques b. a new focus on primate behavior and ecology c. a new focus on human races as pigeonholed categories d. the use of molecular genetics to reconstruct biological histories
Blood ties between people are called:
A) consanguineal ties. B) sororal ties. C) affinal ties. D) familial ties. E) patrilineal ties.
Most workers for multinational corporations in Malaysia are not union members because __________
a. unions are illegal b. unions rarely are able to improve working and wage conditions for workers c. unions accept only males, but most workers are female d. three years of steady employment are required for union membership but most workers are hired on six-month contracts