ANTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Language Ideology, Iunit
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Cultural name: connects you to where you are from and where you are right now. Related to long history and deep meaning stated by russel peters. You"re really connected if you know what that means. Opposite of cultural names anything that sounds kind of english. What is about english names that is not cultural because of colonization. Canadian culture: russel doesn"t have a cultural name but if he had it he would be proud of it. Indian name names like anit patel, prabhjot ( god"s essence), deep meaning, long history, wear it proudly and have culture. English regular name: russel, eric, maureen no meaning or history, can"t really weart it proudly, no culture [i. e. ethnic difference) Language ideologies: that"s what they do in theory. But its different in practice the practice or reality is different than what they say that they"re doing.