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| Gender boundaries what it means to be human |
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Main Themes Guest Speaker Jon Rehyner |
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White people vs. Indians
-Navajo language
-Tradition is the enemy of progress, get rid of native culture old religion and so forth
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-Effectiveness of bilingual language
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as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious.
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How are male privilege and white privilege connected?
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whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege
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What is the “invisible knapsack” to which McIntosh refers?
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to refer to a cache of privilege that whites in the United States possess unknowingly and that affords certain advantages. |
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Define marked/unmarked, in language and in terms of social categories |
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White basically means your unmarked because there is no predijude and marked mean you have something hindering you
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| Define "mock spanish" and give an example |
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| When english speakers use spanish words in there everyday lifes. Ex: Macho |
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| What does AAVE mean and whats another word for it? |
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African American Vernacular English, Ebonics
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Bucholtz: How do nerds in this San Francisco high school use language to “mark” themselves as different from their peers? |
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| They use highly intellegent language to differ themselves form there peers. |
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set of terms for a certian group |
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How is stigmatized speech connected to stigmatized identities? |
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| speech that is looked down on can also control how you look at that person. Ex: Person with a southern accent might not be able to get a perfessional job |
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| What is the difference between "accent" and "dialect" |
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accent it a way of pronouncing a language, associated with a country, area, or social class, an emphasis given to a syllable, word, or note.
dialect isa form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group |
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What are the three department stores where Labov’s study took place?
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| Sax Fifth Avenue, Macy's, S. Klein |
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What are the differences in postvocalic ‘r’ in each of these stores?
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| saks and macys used more of the proper term of "fourth" and klien manly used the the postvalic r |
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| Define Linguistic security/ unsecurity |
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| Saks was more secure because they were more confidient and proper and how they spoke, and unsecurity means unproper and less confident |
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| Define Social Stratification |
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Pecking order, social high archy, levels of social differention
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| What does Tannen oberve about New York Jewish Converstaional Style at her Thanksgiving Dinner in Cali? |
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| fast rate of speech, tendensy to overlap, silences avoided |
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| Define overlap in speech: |
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| allowing no pause before turntaking in a conversation |
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| how each person has their own way of talking and are usually anaware how it affects others around them |
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| O'Barr & Atkins Why do authors advocate the term "poweless language" instead of "womens language" |
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| they show that language differences are based on situation-specific authority or power and not gender |
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| John was here. Tag question would be "Isn't He?" |
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| people talking on stage before song like this song is bla bla bla |
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| rythm of ordinary talk within a song, usually to recite a narrative |
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| when the voice breaks with saddness to contribute to the emotion of the song |
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| Define: "reported speech" |
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| basically the grammar aspect of the song |
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| Bauman define "verbal art" |
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| Define: "ethnography of perfomance" |
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Theater, Poetry, A speech – wants to look at the ways performance plays out in different communities
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| What often keys performance in English? |
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| What features of verbal art are used in Martin Luther King Jr's. I have a dream speech? |
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| Intensity build up and repitition |
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| What is the premise of the "Sapir- Whorf hypothesis"? |
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| the theory that human languages determine the structure of the real world as perceived by human beings, rather than vice versa, and that this structure is different and incommensurable from one language to another |
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| What are way in which language influences behavior? (Whorf) |
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| gestures, culturally, ( you wouldn't jump off a building because we can't fly) |
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| Compare/ Contrast the Hopi and SAE miccrocosms |
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| in Hopi everything is very specific, in SAE you can use many words for different things. Also the concept of time and other things are different |
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| According to Whorf which came which came first language patters or cultural norms? |
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| developed at the same time constantly influencing each other |
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Where is Hopi Nation located? |
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| NE AZ surrounded by Navajo nation with a nation |
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How many dialects of Hopi language are spoken today? |
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| 4 dialects hopi isn't related to navajo |
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What are the names of the songs we listened to in class? What are the names of the bands that played these songs?
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Indian Cowboys, Night Breeze Band played Wanted Man, Apache Spirit played Sweet Navajo Love |
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| Define "feeling iconicity" Samuels "put a song" |
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| noncognitive responses to cultural expression ex: relationship to elements |
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| Define "ambiguous indexicality" |
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| means open to more than one interpetation of what a culture is and does |
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| define political economy of musical sound |
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| the sound that a musciscian or band is capable of producing |
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| Why did not having a good P.A matter to the Pacers? |
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| It disadvantaged them from other bands, associated it with a reason to not win the Battle of the Bands |
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| What reading/ film covered in this class was your favorite? Be specific |
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| Favorite fim: American Tounges because it nicely analyzes how culture and language are connected. |
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