Author Question: Native speakers of the Lakota language were amused when they saw the movie Dances with Wolves ... (Read 289 times)

sabina · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Native speakers of the Lakota language were amused when they saw the movie Dances with Wolves because the:

a. writers got it all wrong.
b. language did not fit the people group.
c. language was all male oriented.
d. language was all female oriented.
e. language was all spoken as if the actors were children.

Question 2

A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house, You may wish to stay inside today, Madam its quite cold outside. But when he goes back to his own cottage he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots, Shut the door and get inside, Maggie, youll freeze your buns off. In linguistics, this is an example of:

a. code switching.
b. class consciousness.
c. glottochronology.
d. phonological analysis.
e. linguistic nationalism.