Author Question: Ethical concerns prompted linguistic anthropologist Harriet E. Manelis Klein, in her work with Ngobe ... (Read 117 times)

leo leo · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Ethical concerns prompted linguistic anthropologist Harriet E. Manelis Klein, in her work with Ngobe speakers in Panama to

a. refuse to teach missionary priests and nuns the Ngobe language.
b. start a Spanish language school for Ngobe speakers, to help them become informed so that they would not sign away their land rights to multinational corporations.
c. teach nuns and priests Ngobe even though she disagreed with their objection to Ngobe polygyny.
d. begin the website NgobeEndangerment.c om, to raise money to preserve this language.

Question 2

The idea that languages are arbitrary systems, and that knowing one language does not allow you to predict how another language will categorize and name the world, is referred to as

a. linguistic relativity.
b. cultural emphasis.
c. semiotic prognostication.
d. componential analysis.