Identity And Language Test Review Flashcards
Identity
How we make sense of ourselves
Ethnicity
Constructed identity
Ethnic conflict
A conflict between 2 or more contending ethnic groups
Identifying against
Part of cultural identity by comparing yourself to others
Race
Skin color, physical characteristics, social constructs, political constructs, biologically assigned and society assigned
Racism
A sense of superiority attached to race
Residential segregation
The degree of which two or more groups live separately
Succession
When another racial group moves into an area with an older immigrant group
Space
Social relations stretched out
Place
Particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together over time in that particular location
Gendered
Places designed specifically for men or women
Dowry deaths
Murders of brides when a dispute arises over dowry
Barriozation
Dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a neighborhood
Cultural identity
Experiences, emotions, connections, rejections, snapshot at a point in time, fluid, affect each other across scales, identifying against
Identity and space
What people should and should not do in a location
Power relationships
Assumptions about who is in control ex minority populations or homeless
Language
A set of sounds combination of sounds and symbols used for communication
Dialect
Unique vocabulary the way you say things and accents
Dialect chain
Set of dialects
Mutual intelligibility
The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking
Language families
A group of languages with a distant origin
Subfamilies
Divisions within a language family
Isogloss
Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs
Sound shift
Slight change in a word across languages
