ANT206H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Code-Mixing, Social Capital, Diglossia

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Indirect indexicality clear indexes (puddle = rain). Mock spanish is about indirect indexicality, people refuse to look at it as racism. It indexes the fact that their funny and familiar with spanish. However the use of mock spanish indirectly indexes racism. Meanwhile, direct indexicality would be the fact that they do not speak spanish properly. Other examples: disney princesses and how they indirectly index how men and women are supposed to be (damsels in distress, heteronormativity etc. ) Literacy practises the general understanding of events in a broader cultural context (refer to adhern: literacy chapter). Having the ability to read and write has the same effect regardless of what culture you"re in. Those who live in illiterate societies are seen as. Literacy events the understanding of literacy practises. Example, love letters by young women to their fathers that they do not want to get married.

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