FINAL 2023 Flashcards

Anthro final

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Language Ideologies

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set of beliefs about language articulated by users as a justification of perceived language structure or use
2. Tell us how people should dtalk
3. affects how we view and think about other people.

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Minority langauges

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Seen as unpatriotic, uneducated, or separatists

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“mock” spanish

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This is used as a form of racism;
- bad accents
-incorrect signs and texts
-borrowing obscene phrases

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ideology

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a system of beliefs characteristic of a particular class or group.

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Native American languages

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Forced Native Americans to speak English; Policy shifted from resettlement to assimilation like boarding schools and English-only classrooms.

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Sign Language

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visual language that does not use spoken word
*seen as clannish and treated as a foreign language

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Foreign Language

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Treated as diversity problem.
-Barriers to efficiency, national unity, and civic participation

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bilingual language

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fluency in and use of two languages

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English-Only programs

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  1. Function to restrict access to less desirable people.
  2. English-only policies are a way to advocate racist ideologies without having to be held accountable for publicly promoting racism
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assimilation

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common language is necessary for national unity and economic productivity

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British English

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American English

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  1. Free from British vices: pompous and antiquated; class distinctions
  2. De facto standard language
  3. Tied to an American Identity
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The Merian Report (1928)

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Criticized practice of braking up families and boarding schools ; Recognized English-only policy as counterproductive socially, educationally and culturally

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Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

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Recognized the rights of tribes to use Native American languages as a medium of instruction in federally funded schools.

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Thomas Gallaudet

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  1. Evangelical minister and used sign language to teach religion
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Deafness

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social problem and individual affliction
*deaf community was seen as a danger to “national unity”

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Manulaism

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The use of sign language as a means of communication :
- handshakes
-orientation
-location
-movement
-facial expression

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Oralism

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focused instruction on the goal of using spoken language
- lip reading
-speech
mimicking mouth shapes

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Language and Education the Deaf Study

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  1. anger and frustration at their failure in language due to oral instruction.
  2. showed that deaf children were more likely to drop out of school
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Rehabilitation Act of 1973

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  1. Required federal programs to provide sign interpreters
  2. sign language is recognized as a second language in most major universities
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Mock Spanish (expressions)

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grassy-ass; casa de peepee;fleas navidad

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linguistic features of Mock Spanish

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  1. misuse of Spanish morphology
    - suffix -o, -tio/ita el, mucho, grande
  2. Hyperangelicized pronunciations
    - “fleas navidad”
    -“grassy-ass”
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inner-sphere

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The world of private life, intimacy, family and close community

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outer sphere

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the world of strangers, work, school, and other public situations

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white public space

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Whites are free to speak however they like
- allowed to abuse and corrupt the Spanish language without consequence
-disorderly language becomes invisible and unproblematic

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direct indexicality

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cosmopolitanism, regional authenticity, sense of humor and congenial personality

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indirect indexicality

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relying on negative stereotypes of Chicanos and Latinos
- stupid, politically corrupt, sexually loose, lazy, dirty, and disorderly

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covert racism

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Not direct racism, relies on indirect associations; perpetuates negative stereotypes

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Double-standard

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Whites have power to abuse and corrupt Spanish language without consequence

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sexuality

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the quality of being sexual or possessing sex

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gender

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Males or females viewed as a group; the property or fact of belonging to these groups

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language ideology

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  1. a set of beliefs about language articulated by users or as a justificaiton perceived lanuage structure or use
  2. taken-for-granted in everyday life
  3. tell us how people should talk
  4. affects how we view and think about other people
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gender roles

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a set of social and behavioral norms that, within a specific culture, are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific gender.

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gender socialization

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gender roles must be learned; not universal, differ between cultures

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Disney stereotypes of men

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Men are doctors, waiters, advisors to kings, thieves, hunters, servants, detectives and pilots; sometimes bad and become good

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Disney stereotypes of AAVE speakers

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  • unemployed, show no purpose in life beyond making music or pleasing themselves
  • most likely to be evil
  • appear in animal rather than humanoid form
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Disney stereotypes of French speakers

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-truly “French” characters are associated with food preparation
- two personality types: irascible and the sensual rascal

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Disney Stereotypes of Mothers

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  • Parenthood and romance do not intersect
  • stay at home and are presented without hint of ethnicity, race, economics, or regional variations
    -stick closely to middle class values
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disney stereotypes of women

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Almost never shown to work outside of home and are usually mothers, princesses, or daughters;
- When they do work, they are waitresses, nurses, nannies, or housekeepers
- Most likely to show positive motivations and actions
- Show no character development

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disney stereotypes of lovers

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  • no male romantic leads with foreign accents
  • only young lovers are presented, never middle aged couples with children or later stages in life.
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disney stereotypes of fathers

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-Comic characters
- wider set of linguistic choices available to them

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disney stereotypes of foreign accents (Swedish, cockney, asian, polish, Jews )

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  1. Swedish Accent : more lighthearted-interested in the joys of living and eating
  2. Cockney Accent: brash little fellow. Inveterate hecklers. Speech is nasalized possibly because of adenoid trouble. dialect is delivered in a whine…. there is always a slovenliness to the pronunciation.
  3. Polish Accent: slow to though, slow to speech and slow to action. are industrious
  4. Asian Accent:
  5. Jewish Accent: had a yiddish accent
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dinnertime narratives #1

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*Primordial means for socializing gender identities ; cumulative effect on children, everyday occurrence over time

20 middle-class European American Families (1987-1989) 100 past-time narratives: reports an stories

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Dinnertime narratives #2

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  • Primordial means for **negotiating, maintaining, transforming, and socializing gender identities **
    -cumulative effect on children, everyday occurrence over time
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Dinnertime Narratives #3

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  1. Protagonist
  2. Introducer
  3. Primary Recipient
  4. Problematizer
  5. Problematizee
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Introducer

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  • person who requests or initiates story
  • mothers frequently requests stories from children
    -father’s not put in position where they have to account for their behaviors
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Primary Recipient

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-Person for whom the story is told
-most often fathers act as “judge of the family”
-fathers self -select as primary recipient
-mothers select father as primary recipent

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Problematizer

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  • Challenges some element of the story
    -Fathers most often challenge the mother
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Problematizee

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-Target of problematization
-mock disbelief
-incompetence
-Fathers rarely problematized as protagonist ; almost never characterized as incompetent

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“Father Knows Best”

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  • Fathers are often primary recipients and can more often pass judgement
  • mothers are most often the target of father’s judgement
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reports

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52
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stories

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53
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language and identity

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-How identities are ascribed to speakers
-Projecting and reading identities by the way they talk
-class, ethnicity, nationality, feminine, masculine
-** How speakers identify through language**

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linguistic supremacy

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  • Some languages or language varieties are treated as better than others.
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myth of standard English

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-links standard English speakers to good people

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Oakland School Board resolution

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-Declared ebonics as primary language of African American Students in 1996 ; should be considered when designing curricula.
- Acknowledged that black students enter classroom with a different language variety
- recognize ebonics as a “home” language to many black children.

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Educational problems associated with Oakland schools

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58
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rumors

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  • Teachers used ebonics in instruction
    -students taught ebonics
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linguistic Society of America

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-Unanimously approved resolution describing ebonics “systematic and rule-government like all natural speech varieties”
- declared Oakland resolution as “linguistically and pedagogically sound”
- descriptive rather than prescriptive

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Reality

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  • teachers use ebonics to teach children how to write and read standard English
  • scaffold and facilitate between languages
  • Help teachers understand ebonics and change cultural attitudes about it
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Ebonics

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“Ebony” and “phonics” (“lazy English”, “bastardized English,” “poor grammar”,, “fractured slang”, “bad English”)
- black English, African American English, African American vernacular English, black vernacular English

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Black language

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-black language=southern U.S. English + west African languages+ unique elements

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Afrocentric (ethnolinguistic) view

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most of the distinctive pronunciation and grammatical features represent continuities from Africa
- restructured English to patterns of Niger-Cong languages

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Eurocentric (dialectologist) view

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Learned English from the dialects of white settlers quickly and successfully with little influence from African linguistic heritage.

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Creolist view

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while acquiring English, slaves developed a simplified fusion of English and African languages
- American colony slaves learned pidgins and creoles from Caribbean colony slaves

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simplified consonant clusters

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-running- running
- test- tes
- stand- stan
*does not allow deletion of second consonant unless both consonants are either voiceless or voiced

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creolist view

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68
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simplified consonant clusters

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69
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metathesis

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  • ask - ask
  • pretty-perty
  • prescription- prescription
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copula absence

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  • Linking verb
  • he say he [is] not ready
  • I [am] taller than most people
  • the birds [were]there
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”s” absence

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  • she keep her distance, I keep mine
    -she think she cute
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multiple negation

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  • she don’t believe nothin I tell her
  • there isn’t no other way
    -I didn’t go nowhere today
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“done”

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  • he done work (he finished work a long time ago)
  • He done even work ( until recently, he worked over a long period of time)
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tenses and aspects

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  • “when” and habitually or not
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miscommunication

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don’t share the same assumptions about language even though everyone is speaking the same language - clash of language ideologies

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intercultural miscommunication

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Service encounters between Koreans and African-Americans in Los Angeles
- African Americans feel taken advantage of by Koreans
- Koreans feel antagonized by African American
clash of language ideologies

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communication of respect

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  • Achieved, often unconsciously
  • paralinguistic cues
  • different languages interpret the same cues differently
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paralinguistic cues

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79
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socially minimal service encounters

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Just the basics, negotiation for exchange ; characterizes restraint politeness

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socially expanded service encounters

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The basics, plus interpersonal involvement; characterizes involved politeness

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restraint politness

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an unwillingness to impose on others, indirectness, hedging, apologies

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involvement politeness

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express approval of others and emphasizes solidarity through interactions
- compliments, jokes, agreement, demonstration of personal interest, and offers

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African American culture

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socially expanded service encounters; involvement politeness

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Korean culture

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-socially minimal service encounters ; restraint politeness
- with the exception of involvement politeness for Korean store owners and customers who know each other.

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“culture capital”

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socialization class values ; asserting one’s social position through an aesthetic appreciation (home decoration, clothing, cosmetics

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class roles

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white middle class women are socialized to be more polite than other social groups
- working class people tended to stress the directness and loudness of their language.

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degradation rituals

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88
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cliques

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Friendship circles whose members tend to identify each other fas mutually connected
- hierarchical structure dominated by leaders and are exclusive

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popular girls

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fourth grade girls who regularly eat lunch and play together.

90
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leaders

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Janis and Emi
- assertive control acts, demands, setting frame of play, and allocating role to others; speak in directives

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directives

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An utterance intended to indicated the speaker’s desire to regulate the behavior of the listener
- get the listener to do something

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mitigated speech

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-Hedging
- asking for permission
-providing justification for actions

93
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social status

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position in group : hierarchy, I.e leaders, tag-along girl

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embodied practices to index social status

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  • How children assert inequality among group members in their everyday talk
  • socioeconomic status as most salient factor
  • exclude people who do not have access to activities and objects
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linguistic practices to index social status

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  • references to events and objects: European vacations, games, brand name clothing and shoes .
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format tying

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build a next utterance from a prior one
- 2nd speaker makes use of the syntax in prior utterance and provides a mirror utterance with slight changes in meaning affiliating to prior speakers talk

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covert social exclusion

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  • Relational aggression
  • (threat of) withdrawal of friendship
    -gossip
  • negative body language or facial expressions
  • sabotaging someone else’s relationships
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direct social exclusion

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Explicit and direct verbal speech
- insults
-bald imperatives
-stories in which target is portrayed in a negative way

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bullying

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  • negative actions occurring repeatedly over time on the part of one or more persons
  • direct verbal aggression (name calling, threats)
  • indirect aggression (spreading rumors)
  • nonverbal aggression (stares)
100
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social exclusion

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children articulate inequality with respect to their own understanding of social class

101
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social exclusion of Angela

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  • sanctioning through ridicule and exclusion ; degradation rituals
  • construction of Angela’s nonperson and polluted status ; treated as an undesirable member of the group
    -personal and ritual insult
  • stories about exclusion
102
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debate between Deborah tanner and Candy Goodwin

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103
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Men’s style of communication

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104
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amplification

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105
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Women’s style of communication

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106
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“manslainin”/”man-interruptions”

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