Anthropology 2245F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Ideology, Universal Grammar, Call Centre
3 Oct 2017
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Often associated with particular age group or region. Ideas, beliefs and attitudes people have about specific forms of language and about users of those linguistic forms, which create inequalities among people and languages. An american man living in london found it weird to have to ignore people who you. He distributed buttons saying tube chat? that came with little explanations. Children will figure out the rules of their language. There must be some things about grammar in all languages that are universal, above the level of things that are unique to every language. Arguing that we are not just acquiring language, but culture at the same time. Looking at the cultural knowledge that goes together with linguistic knowledge, and to some extent, they determine one another. Politeness = indirect requests, avoid no, avoid expression of conflicting opinion. Comparative study of literacy practices and effects on schooling. Language gap between rich and poor children begins in infancy, stanford psychologists find.
