An Anthropologist Who Studies the Relationship Between Language and Culture

question 6

Multiple Choice

An anthropologist who studies the relationship between language and culture is working in the field of:

• A) ethnolinguistics.
• B) descriptive linguistics.
• C) historical linguistics.
• D) sociolinguistics.
• E) glottochronology.

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Definitions:

Linear Perspective

A technique in drawing and painting that creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface, representing objects smaller as their distance from the observer increases.

Monocular Depth Cue

Visual information that allows for the perception of depth using the input from just one eye.

Ames Room

A distorted room that creates an optical illusion of objects growing or shrinking as they move across the room.

Bottom-up Processing

A cognitive approach in which perception starts with stimuli input from the environment and works upwards to form a higher-level analysis.