Author Question: Which statement below describes the language attitudes of the people of Khalapur, India? A People ... (Read 134 times)

saraeharris · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Which statement below describes the language attitudes of the people of Khalapur, India?

A People in the higher castes think their own variety sounds ignorant.
B People in the higher castes think the variety spoken by the lower castes sounds sophisticated.
C People in the lower castes think their own variety sounds ignorant.
D People in the lower castes think the variety spoken by the higher castes sounds ignorant.
E People in both higher and lower castes accept each other's languages varieties without stigma.

Question 2

In semantic analyses, the term prototype means

A a group of vocabulary words with related meanings, such as kinship terms.
B an unstated comparison between entities or events that share certain features.
C a cultural model that affects communicative behavior.
D an idealized, internalized conceptualization of an object, quality, or activity.
E an object, quality, or activity that is on the boundary between two semantic categories.