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The language of Samoan is part of the family of languages called:​

A) ​Indo-European
B) ​Romance
C) ​Slavic
D) ​Oceanic

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Language is specifically a system of communication composed of:​

A) ​signals and gestures
B) ​sounds and signals
C) ​sounds and gestures
D) ​abstract ideas

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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If language does mirror cultural reality, then it would follow that changes in a culture will sooner or later:​

Edward Hall pioneered the study of:​

About 70 percent of the world's languages are:​

Some chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans have been taught:​

What is sociolinguistics?​

What are some of the challenges that illiterate people face in today's global world?

Human language is always embedded within a _______________ system of a type we share with nonhuman primates.​

The Rosetta stone allowed linguistic researchers to decode which linguistic system?

If you were sent out to decipher an unwritten language, which area of linguistics would be the most useful to you?​

During the age of exploration, there was estimated to be approximately how many languages existing?

Changing from one mode of speech to another as the situation demands, whether from one language to another or from one dialect of a language to another, is called:​

Consider what you have learned in this chapter about proxemics. How does context affect what is considered an appropriate use of space? Are there any differences between how men engage social space versus how women engage social space?​

A type of speech that can be more effective than shouted talk across greater distances because it occurs at a higher pitch is called __________ speech.

​Name three forces for linguistic divergence.

Made of hemp string, the Iroquois used ___________ with shell beads to make treaties and record important messages.​

The idea that distinctions encoded in one language are unique to that language is called linguistic nationalism.​

The ability to comprehend two languages but express oneself in only one is known as _______________.​

Two-thirds of illiterate adults worldwide are women.​