Final exam questions on Comparative Typology of Cultures

The Uzbek culture

The Uzbek culture is … process-oriented

The cultural relativism means that Culture of each nation is relative, so we can evaluate it in its frames and perspectives

Nonverbal means are … Gestures, mimics

Exclude one of the stereotypes of communicative behavior which is not related to the American culture Ask private questions

Often attributions and evaluations of the behaviors of “strangers” are based on the ….. of the observers. Value and belief systems

Lexical phone (backgrounds) includes esoteric share of word but they are out of its semantics and related to the background knowledge so called… Cultural-marked items yoki over-notional meaning

The subject of the linguocultural analysis are.. Wrong: language units in structural-semantic aspect

Find term which is suitable to the given context. According to…., the English are also thought to be reserved, conservative, shy of strangers …unemotional. stereotype

What are the mental forms of knowledge Values, traditions, rituals (bu jb ham togri chiqqan: concepts,frames,scripts,prototypes,gestalts)

Outer-direction type of the culture means… People believe that nature, or their environment, controls them; they work with harmony of nature

The information about world is put in the people’s mind as… information

Exclude item that is not belonging to the system of nonverbal means of communication Speech acts

Find the dominant traits of the national character of the British people. Conservative

Precedent names of English people are… Diana princess, Elizabeth queen

According to the theory of linguo-country-study some words have notional meaning and …