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vocabular unit 3+4
folk and popular culture/language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | A collection of customs shared by a population |
| Adaptive strategies | The unique way in which each culture uses it's particular physical environment; Those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life - Food, clothing, shelter, and defense |
| Anglo-American landscape | American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English, and the landscape thereof. |
| Characteristics | a defining quality |
| Built environment | the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity |
| Folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Folklore | unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture |
| Material culture | objects of natural or culural significance |
| Nonmaterial culture | abstract or untangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs, and values) that influence people's behavior |
| Popular culture | Entertainment spread by mass communications and enjoying wide appeal |
| Custom | a habit conducted by a group of individuals. |
| Habit | a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition by an individual |
| Taboo | an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion |
| Formal Region | A region marked by relative uniformity of characteristics |
| Functional Region | defined by their connections |
| Perceptual Region | perceived regions, such as "The South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East" |
| Core | center, of central importance. |
| Cultural Landscape | Modification to an environment by humans (including built environments and agricultural systems that reflects aspects of culture.) |
| Syncretism | Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief |
| Core-domain-sphere model | The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest. |
| node | the central dominating focus of a region. |
| cultural convergience | The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication |
| cultural realm | A collective of culture regions sharing related culture systems |
| hearth | A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops |
| Literary tradition | ask teacher |
| Creole | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation |
| Indo-European languages | germanic, romance, balto-slavic, and indo-iranian languages are all part of the same indo-european language family and they all have commmon roots |
| Ideograms | 1.A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters |
| Isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
| Isolated Languages | A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language |
| Language | a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
| Language family | a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| Language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatibely few differences in grammar and vocabulary |
| Language subfamily | a smaller group of languages within the language family that are related to one another through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| Lingua franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| Linguistic diversity | the occurance of numerous languages that are spoken around the world |
| Monolingual/multilingual | capable of communication in one (mono) language and (multi) capable of communication in more than one language, but not necessarily at the same level of proficiency |
| Official language | an official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in the countries, states, and other territories |
| Pidgin language | a simplified, limited language combining features from many languages and used among persons who share no common language amongst themselves |
| Toponymy | the scientific study of place-names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology |
| Trade language | also a pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of trade |
| Vulgar Latin | popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. |
| Relocation diffusion | The spread of an idea through physical movement of one place to another. |
| Expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowball effect. (3 ways: hierarchical, contagious, stimulus) |
| Heirarchial Expansion diffusion | The spread of an idea to positions of power, then other peoples. |
| Contagious Expansion diffusion | The widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population through some large, interconnected outlet (internet, new etc.) |
| Stimulus Expansion diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle, though not necessarily the characteristic (nice cars = prestige) |
| innovation adoption | study of how, why, and what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture |
| survey system | system by which land is allotted withing a place |
| scale | territory covered by a culture |
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