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Globalisation

Pregunta 1 de 54

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Globalisation is...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The process of intensified compression and increasing consciousness of the world

  • The rapid expansion and intensified consciousness of the world

  • The homogenisation of global cultures

  • The system of intensified compression and increasing consciousness of the world

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 54

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Time and space compression is...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The phenomenon altering time and space relations due to the rapid increase in technology allowing communication to travel faster, making the world seem smaller

  • The earth is slowly moving closer to the sun, causing space to appear more compressed and time to speed up

  • Two-way flow/process of globalisation

  • when you move further away from the core of 'civilisation,' society becomes more backwards

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 54

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Glocalisation is thinking global, but acting local

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 54

1

What are the four facilitating factors of intercultural exchange discussed in the lecture?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Intercultural trade

  • Foreign religions

  • Political/Military factors

  • Social factors

  • Cultural factors

  • Linguistic factors

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 54

1

Colonisers 'form a community' by 'un-forming/re-forming' the existing colonised community.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 54

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The difference between postcolonialism and post-colonialism is...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Postcolonialism is ideological, while post-colonialism is temporal

  • With post-colonialism, countries can still be culturally and economically neo-colonised, but formally decolonised. Postcolonialism on the other hand, is completely free of its colonisers influence

  • Postcolonialism is characterised by different experiences within/between countries, while post-colonialism is concerned with the education, literature, and linguistic experience

  • Postcolonialism is the process of decolonisation, while post-colonialism is the result of decolonisation

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 54

1

While colonialism includes imperialism, imperialism does not require colonialism.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 54

1

Which one describes postcolonial theory?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A new way of analysing text by re-reading traditional English literature for colonial themes and discourse and the analysis of representations of colonised subjects

  • "Ways that representations and modes of perception are used as fundamental weapons of colonial power to keep colonised people subservient to colonial rule." It is the colonisation of the mind

  • It emphasises unity in diversity, making specific, national differences less important than grand, abstract, universal concerns through a humanist approach

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 54

1

What is the subaltern?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Those in the lowest social position, outside hegemonic power structures of colonial powers

  • Those in the highest social position, operate within the hegemonic power structure but oppose colonial powers

  • Indigenous language that has been marginalised and associated with backwardness and barbarianism

  • Language or dialect used often only by those in the lowest social position as a result of colonial language policy

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 54

1

The usage-based approach to language is characterised by...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Reading the intention of others

  • Joint attention and social interaction

  • Shared structure of languages

  • Cognitive abilities developed through socio-cultural factors

  • All humans have the ability to learn a language

  • Language forms knowledge about the self and social world

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 54

1

Weak hypothesis of the Linguistic Relativity Principle suggests that the structure of language determines thoughts.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 54

1

Galton's problem stated that...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Different cultures develop and adopt similar characteristics as a result of cultural exchange, not independently as previously believed

  • Modernity and modernism is a western phenomena and that it is incorporated by non-western cultures

  • Everything obeys the laws of market

  • Societies take on patterns of rationalisation, breaking down tasks into smaller tasks for production

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 54

1

Pragmatics is...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • How people use context to understand knowledge of human behaviour needed to interpret interactions

  • How people use their knowledge of human behaviour to understand the context of interactions

  • How people use interactions to interpret to understand the context of human behaviours

  • How people use their knowledge of communications to avoid misunderstandings

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 54

1

Which best characterises opinions of the anti-globalisation movement towards globalisation? (can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Against the neo-liberal aspect of globalisation

  • No globalisation without representation

  • Fear of fragmentation

  • Spread of western modernism and colonialism

  • Reinforcing the ideas of the 'other' and backwardness of non-western civilisations

  • Form of neo-imperialism

  • Fear of homogenisation

  • Against all global networks

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 54

1

Which are communication strategies used to avoid miscommunication discussed in the lectures?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Indicating need for repair

  • Try to reformulate

  • Ask for confirmation

  • Ask for clarification

  • Use gestures to help convey message

  • Switch to different language

  • Draw pictures or write it down

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 54

1

Which answer describes a lingua franca?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Language used for communication between speakers that do not share a native tongue

  • Language spoken around the world by populations other than those associated with them

  • Language spoken by most of the worlds population, serving as a medium of literacy and other forms of cultural life

  • Language of public signage

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 54

1

The outer circle in the three circles of Englishes represents those who use English as a foreign language.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 54

1

What are the three main types of colonisation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Progressive territorial expansion, exploitation of bodies, and colonisation of the mind

  • Conservative ideology, territorial expansion, and exploitation of resources

  • Reactionary political ideology, exploitation of resources, and expansion of power

  • Linguistic, colonisation of the mind, and capitalist economy

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 54

1

Linguistic imperialism favours one language over others in a way that parallels societal structures.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 54

1

Three important actors in linguistic imperialism discussed in the lecture are...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Private linguistic institutions

  • Governmental institutions

  • Religious missionaries

  • Small community organisations

  • Family

  • School and educational instututes

  • Military

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 54

1

What have we learnt from post colonial linguistics?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • That post-colonial nations with linguistically diverse citizens recognise the importance of European languages for wider communication

  • An explanation of perceived language and use, such as beliefs about articulation and rationalisation or justification

  • An investigation of social and ideological significance of language and conception in nature of language and use

  • It underpins ethnic struggles

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 54

1

Which best describes 'art as panhuman'?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Inherently global feature, motivated by art for art's sake

  • Art ties in with economics and politics,a representation of primitivism and/or cultural heritage and identity

  • Refers to culture and globalisation were we ascribe more value to art, defamiliarise subjects, and challenge the ideological hegemony

  • Art occurs all around the world, often serving religious functions, capturing the essence of the subject in the images and therefore controlling them

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 54

1

What were the three types of portraitures?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Generic, emblematic, and representational

  • Characteristic, symbolic, and representational

  • Idiosyncrasy, emblematic, and represntation

  • Symbolic, rendering, and depction

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 54

1

Globalisation is a process, not a system.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 54

1

What were the three identity subjects described by Hall?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Enlightenment subject

  • Postmodern subject

  • Sociological subject

  • Primitive subject

  • Posthuman subject

  • Paradoxical subject

  • Modern subject

  • Subjective subject

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 54

1

The uncanny valley theory shows us that as objects with human features look more like natural human beings, there is a dip in familiarity and a feeling of revulsion amongst people.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 54

1

What were the three blows to human ego

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The earth is not the centre of the universe

  • The human species is not unique

  • The human mind is not entirely in control

  • Emotions are not rational

  • Some developments are universal

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 54

1

What best describes 'anti-globalisation?' (can pick more than one

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Against the neo-liberal aspect of globalisation

  • Shift towards counter-globalisation

  • No globalisation without representation

  • Against formation of global networks

  • Anti-western movement

  • Form of western neo-imperialism

  • Against the capitalist nature of globalisation

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 54

1

In the lecture, we discussed that cultural globalisation is the mixing of contemporary enabled by what? (can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Patterns of population movement

  • Generalised accelerating globalisation

  • Globalisation of electronic communications

  • Patterns of population growth

  • Changes in societal structures

  • Innovations in popular culture in media

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 54

1

In all the definitions of colonialism given, there is no mention of the indigenous people.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 54

1

What did the psychopathology of colonisation discuss?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The socio-psychological effects of colonialism and the objectification of people with different skin colour

  • The socio-psychological effect of colonialism and the stripping of natural resources and exploitation of colonised lang and people

  • The psychological impact of linguistic imperialism and colonial language policy on the indigenous people

  • The psychological impact on society as a result of globalisation and the implementation of capitalist economic systems

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 54

1

The Holy Trinity of Postcolonial Theory is composed up of which 3 theorists?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Edward Said

  • Homi Bhabha

  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Frantz Fanon

  • Rosi Braidotti

  • John Clark

  • Paul Ricoeur

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 54

1

Mimicry is the breakdown of authority of the coloniser by the colonised through appropriating elements of the coloniser, intervening with the traditional power structure.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 54

1

What are the five 'scapes' described by Appadurai?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Ethnoscape: peoples' movements

  • Mediascape: media and how it represents the world

  • Technoscape: global configuration of the world

  • Financescape: distribution of global capital

  • Ideoscape: distribution of ideologies

  • Politiscape: political structure within a community

  • Globalscape: globalisation and how it effects the world

  • Telescape: communications and how innovations change rate of information distribution

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 54

1

Acculturation is the west incorporating non-western cultural aspects into own culture.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 54

1

What are the three linguistic frames of reference?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Relative, absolute, and intrinsic

  • Comparative, definitive, and intrinsic

  • Relative, definitive, and inherent

  • Definitive, intrinsic, and inherent

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 54

1

Communicative competence is the knowledge of how to communicate in certain situations.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 54

1

Pragmatic failure is a misunderstanding that arises from the inability to understand a speech act as a result of grammar.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 54

1

Which describes sociopragmatic failure?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Caused by cross-culturally different assessments of social distance, power relations, rights and obligations, impositions, taboo subjects etc. It is associated with the cross-culture iceberg because some cultural context is primarily in awareness but most out of awareness

  • Force assigned to a certain linguistic structure which does not correspond to the normally assigned one in a native culture

  • Teacher-induced error; transfer is done in the preferred way of native language, which is not how it would be commonly said in the target language

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 54

1

What are the four typologies of multilingualism?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Duplicating multilingualism

  • Fragmentary multilingualism

  • Overlapping multilingualism

  • Complementary multilingualism

  • Contrasting multilingualism

  • Parallell multilingualism

  • Repetitive multilingualism

  • Idle multilingualism

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 54

1

What is the posthuman predicament?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The blurring of boundaries between humans, animals, and technology

  • The importance of quantifying self

  • Identity is unstable and fragmented

  • The increasing importance of space relations

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 54

1

Plessner claims that the difference between living and inanimate objects is that life is embodied and has boundaries, while inanimate objects have contours which we ascribe to them.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 54

1

What are the three stages of embodiment?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Open postionality

  • Centric positionality

  • Ex-centric positionality

  • Post-centric positionality

  • Peripheral positionality

  • Closed positionality

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 54

1

Which of the following describes extrahumanism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Individual human enhancement

  • Creating new life and genetic modification

  • Creating artificial life forms

  • All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 54

1

Capitalism and globalisation are used (incorrectly) interchangeable as a result of a semantic shift.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 54

1

Globalisation is seen as paradoxical because it is presented as global, but theorised as anti-western.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 54

1

A paradigm shift in the globalisation process can be seen in the following...(can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Decline is uneven

  • Erosion of southern nation states

  • Northern states making a comeback

  • Erosion of the democratic system

  • Criticisms of the capitalist system

  • Neo-colonialsm

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 54

1

How is education used as a tool for implementing colonial language policy? (can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Privileging/enforcing dominant language over others

  • Westernising a small segment of the population

  • Civilising population

  • Elevate prestige of indigenous language

  • Manipulate the linguistic periphery

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 54

1

Minority languages represent what elements? (can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Nationalism

  • Ideology

  • Politics

  • Conflict

  • History

  • Membership

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 54

1

Which of the following is not a main actor in minority languages discussed in the lecture?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Minority members

  • Religious leaders

  • External powers

  • None of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 54

1

Which is not a global impact of minorities that was discussed in the lecture?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Diasporas

  • Multimedia

  • Education

  • International organisation/external influences agendas

  • Internal divisions

  • Ethnic/linguistic threat

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 54

1

Language is a powerful force in religious change and the spread of religion.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 54

1

In the lecture, we discussed that language and religion is multi-faceted for which of the following reasons?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It addresses the status of particular languages in particular religions

  • Religion is considered taboo

  • Religion impacts language planning

  • Religious eduction impacts language use

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 54

1

Structural functionalism concerns...(can pick more than one)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Effects of religion on language

  • Mutuality of religion and language

  • Effects of language on religion

  • Language, religion, and literacy

  • Effects of religion and language on social stratification

  • Language, religion, and colonial exploitation

Explicación