COMM 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Lakota Language, Object Pronoun, Language Shift
8 Sep 2020
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Must be before an auxiliary-main verb sequence. Auxiliary must be able to contract or delete. This worms, they get in your body. Locates character as socially and intellectually subordinate to dominant white public. Appropriation of inauthentic language traits by non-authentic users. Use of name (or epithet) for a community to represent a different community"s team. Adopting a cultural practice from some other culture. Over 350 languages at time of european contact over 100 in california alone. Children in community don"t learn heritage language. Typically only 2 or 3 speakers per language. 3,000 tribe members, 0 speakers of chumash. Language shift: replacement of individuals" and communities" language of heritage with the larger society"s dominant language. Language of heritage is maintained in the country of heritage. Language shift + the language of heritage is spoken nowhere else. For some immigrants, most/all speakers may leave the country of heritage (e. g. , political refugees: yiddish)
