ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Buddhist Chant, African American Vernacular English, Heteroglossia
24 Aug 2020
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Women in the us tend to be more careful about uneducated speech. Men in the us may adopt working class speech due to its masculine association. Women weren"t always allowed into college so now they find it important. In colonial or postcolonial setings, the colonizers language is often considered to. This is an example of linguistic inequality: making value judgments about other be superior to pidgin or creole languages peoples accents. Language habits of african americans children were not linguistically deprived. William labovs studies in the 1960s showed that inner-city african american. Linguistic antrhopologists have shown that the speech of african americans is characterized by heteroglossia. Language ideology: a marker of struggles between social groups with different interests, revealed in what people say and how they say it of afircan american english stresses indirectness. Linguistic anthropologist marcyliena morgan argues that the language ideology. African americans spoke differently when not in the company of whites.
