- heather w: How can ethnic stereotypes and language ideologies be perpetuated in the media, including children's films?
- laura r: In the United States there is strong feeling toward making English the only official language and many are threatened by the presence of other languages. What do you think contributes to these strong feelings? Do language ideologies come into play?
- shannon p: Describe the sociohistorical factors that have contributed to the life of a language/dialect (example: African American English) or the decline/death of a language/dialect (example the Cherokee or Lumbee).
- deborah e: Is dialect diversity fading in American English? Provide examples.
- patrick f: Explain/discuss how institutional disregard for the linguistic facts of life has contributed to the disintegration of Native American languages.
- kole m: Why is it that learning about language subordination as an ongoing process—as taught by Lippi-Green in her Linguistic Facts of Life—such an effective means of converting a layperson attitude?
- kole m: Since taking this class, how has the way you listen to (and think about) spoken language changed?
- kole m: Why might a person so desperately hold-on to the notion of ‘pure’ English? Where does this notion come from? As if arguing with an adamant linguistic layperson, clearly explain why ‘pure’ English is a myth and why/how prescriptive attitudes are maintained.
- kole m: Why are you responsible, as a linguist, for seizing linguistic authority from naïve laypersons? What have you done (or what can you do) outside of the service learning project to maintain and promote linguistic awareness?
- chadia m: Explain how do vernacular dialect features represent linguistic richness rather than deficiencies? Give examples.
dec 4 2008 ∞
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