Chapter 3 Vocabulary

5. An idealized, internalized conceptualization of an object, quality, or activity.
6. Meaning “people” or “a division of people.”
7. Used to refer metaphorically to non relatives.
9. An aggregate of words, all sharing a core meaning.
10. Indigenous systems of meaning.
12. Refers to the fact that participants in speech interactions come to encounters with an array of knowledge and understandings of their culture as expressed and transmitted through language.
13. An implicit, often nonconscious, construction of reality that is created, shared, and transmitted by members of a group.

1. Vocabulary of a language.
2. The process of attributing animate or human qualities to non living entities or events.
3. The procedure used to determine significant contrasts; developed by Ward Goodenough.
4. A type of semantic transfer; the substitution of one entity by another based on their shared occurence in context rather than on the similarity of their attributes.
8. Systems of classification that people construct to organize knowledge of their universe.
11. Its central sense within the whole range of meanings that it has.
14. Based on unstated comparisons between entities or events that share certain features.