ANTH 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Taco Bell, Mock Spanish, Moe Williams
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Gender communicated strategies are drawn into the dynamics of cultural power. Tannen: crosstalk : different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, have different communicative styles, if one is not aware, may lead to communicative breakdown gender and different cultures. Ochs and taylor on dinnertime conversations: not separate culture, but a shared culture of asymmetry that we all learn and take part in. Mothers directs child to tell father about day/self may serve to put women, men, and children into a politics of asymmetry . Kulick: no : * will consider this issue more when discussing gender. Jane hill says that americans over exaggerating spanish words view themselves as sophisticated in their knowledge of another language, while spanish speaking people with a greater knowledge of the spanish language are portrayed as unamerican or inferior. Encino ma (so easy even a caveman can speak it)