ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mock Spanish, Political Question, Essentialism
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Language change: r and r-lessness, geographical change. Dialect change: temporal change, social change, personal change, covert and overt prestige. How does language stay the same: language ideology, language status. Language standardization: all sorts of ways that change, but also ways that language stay the same, rs and r-lessness. How class is constructed and mediate language differenes: stroop effect: reading is overlearned. Language obsolescence: influences: economic power, colonization, religion, writing, education, war, genocide, some languages are much more likely to be become extinct: indigenous languages, last speaker phenomenon: Geographically: unequal distribution of where languages are more likely to become extinct. Questions(exam: write answers in exam booklet: answers must not exceed one page single-spaced(or 2 pages double) Compare and discuss two different language ideologies drawing on at least two of the class readings(for example, you could compare language ideologies about class and gender) The study of languages is a scientific enterprise, the effort to preserve them is not.
