Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: African American Vernacular English, Newfoundland English, Judith Butler
25 Nov 2016
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Varieties, dialects and styles identities, language ideologies, indexicality. T/f: the development of oral language is arbitrary whereas the development of writing systems is not. Short answer: in the west, writing tends to be elevated above orality, deemed more important and better appreciated than speaking. Discourse of lack, trying to explain things by what they don"t have in comparison to something else. T/f: with regard to communicative competence, a social goal can accomplished by someone shouting out loud, to the deserted forest. Short answer: implicit suggestions or understandings in an utterance are called situated inferences. Identify is a process of doing, not a state of being: language ideologies affect perceptions and self and others, language used to create social inequalities, reproduce them or challenge them. What are linguist resources: languages, mother tongue. All of these are tears that are used interchangeably. Language from birth that you spoke at home, some have more than one.
