< - Rame: AN e ANTH/LING 203(503): Intro. to Linguistic Anthropology . MIDTERM EXAM: October 31,2016 Exam Total 100pts. Write your iaime of ¢ach page. 1. In the movie American Tongues we leamed the difference petween dialect, accent, and slang. African American English (AAE) is an example of slang: True False > (ipoint) 2. The film Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Tongue, lists three institutions - boarding school, church and government - that were responsible for the erasure of Native American languages. How did the approaches of these institutions diminish the Native American languages? (Choose three that apply, 1 point for each correct answer) - A. The government passed a law that the Native Americans wers not allowed to speak their X ) native languages in the family . (_B,) The children leamed to be ashamed of their culture and language (C.)The children needed to know the White culture and language to be successful L The Church encouraged their traditional practices as long as they performed them in English @The children were taken from home and kept away from their tradition and language oose six statements below which describe ethnographic methods (1 point each) Analyzing conversations in social media Div_idin_g respondents into two groups: experimental and control groups f Living in the community you are working with )\ 7 7 Using information that has been collected by other researchers @ Stopping and asking people short questions about a certain topic on the street Aot the.in t= 1o do thei hinal ol F. Going to an informal meeting and taking notes about the talk Using related articles in newspapers and magazines laying online games and observing the other players 1.~ Predicting human behavior with computer systems KL)\ 4. List the two approaches that attempt to explain how language began. (2 point each) - &\(\ 20OV o«\)om@CV\ AW ORI\ i : hite \ 5. In the film Do You Speak American the narrator stated that African Americans and\a' ooint) )i people sound more alike now than they did in the past. True False f_ . An anthropologist conducted fieldwork abroad. He wentto a local market to sotoo\_ f;: . groceries. He picked a pepper and said to the |oco| seller that he wanted to buy '\"t;'\s . said in her language, “Do you want to buy this fruit?” He nodded"and thougt;t, e et interesting. In our culture we categorize peppers as vegetables.” He, then, dect izati in the community he works with. ore about the categorization system inthe ) . " :rr\\ this conversation, the anthropologist applies ETIC orldview towards the lo seller (circle your answer, 1 point.) 7. On the back side of this sheet define cutture (to receive full credit your answer has to include tt;ree of the distinct features of culture). (10 oints) SRV C. gl M 4
