Language and Communication in Anthropology – MCQs

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1. What is the study of language in relation to culture called?



2. Who proposed the concept of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?



3. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that:



4. Which term refers to the smallest unit of meaning in a language?



5. The study of speech sounds in language is called:



6. What is code-switching?



7. Which of the following is a non-verbal form of communication?



8. Paralanguage refers to:



9. Which branch of linguistics studies sentence structure?



10. Semantics is concerned with:



11. What does ‘diglossia’ refer to?



12. Noam Chomsky is known for his theory of:



13. What is the term for the study of how language is used in social contexts?



14. Which term describes a language that develops as a mix of two or more languages?



15. Pidgin languages usually develop due to:



16. What is a phoneme?



17. Kinesics is the study of:



18. Proxemics refers to:



19. The study of writing systems is known as:



20. Which anthropologist emphasized the importance of language in understanding culture?



21. Which term refers to variations in a language depending on social class, region, or group?



22. Sociolinguistics studies:



23. What is the smallest grammatical unit that carries meaning?



24. Which of the following is an example of paralanguage?



25. Which of the following describes language ideology?



26. The study of meaning in linguistic expressions is called:



27. Speech communities are defined by:



28. The use of two or more languages within a conversation is called:



29. Which term refers to a simplified language that develops for communication between speakers of different languages?



30. Language that has developed from a pidgin and has native speakers is called:



31. The study of rules for combining words into sentences is called:



32. Linguistic relativity is also known as:



33. The use of polite forms in speech is studied under:



34. A language spoken by a specific cultural group is referred to as their:



35. Pitch, tone, and stress are components of:



36. The smallest contrastive unit of sound in a language is called:



37. Which term describes words borrowed from one language into another?



38. In linguistic anthropology, gesture is studied as part of:



39. What is the term for words that sound like the thing they describe?



40. The study of written symbols used in a language is called:



41. The use of silence as a communicative act falls under:



42. Which type of communication uses no spoken or written words?



43. The relationship between language and power in society is studied in:



44. The use of certain words or speech styles to indicate social status is called:



45. In anthropology, speech is considered:



46. Which term refers to distinct forms of a single language spoken by particular groups?



47. The part of linguistic anthropology that studies meaning in context is called:



48. Non-verbal communication includes:



49. Which of the following describes mutual intelligibility?



50. A group’s specific way of using language in particular contexts is called: