Rickey Anthro notes for final

9/22 : How do you say “yes” in Maine: (“ayuh”), how should we describe the view of John Simon, a theater and film critique?(prescriptivist), how should we describe the view and work of jesse sheidlower the North American editor of Oxford English Dictionary?(descriptivist), what does “yins” mean and where is it used?(you(plural) in pittsburg(western Pennsylvania) and the Appalachia), the creole language spoken in south seas islands, US is called(Gullah/Geechee), what did the parents of the students at the Martin Luther king Junior elementary school argue in 1979?(their children were placed in a special education program for speaking black English and were denied equal protection of the laws). 10/11: which kinds of work do linguists, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropologists do?(descriptive). How did Dennis Preston collect data on language attitude?(Asking people to draw maps and discuss speech ways). On what sort of data was the study you just read based?(quantitative data based on surveys on language attitudes and evaluations about how people speak). According to a study conducted by Dennis Preston among Alabama university students, what are their views of their own English?(correct and pleasant). According to the study conducted by Dennis Preston among Michigan residents, in which areas of the US people are thought to be speaking incorrectly?( The South and NYC). William labor defined “linguistic insecurity”, as hypersensitivity to stigmatization(Michigan resident). 10/13 : What is the language myth Preston discusses in his essay?(some varieties of a language are not as good as others). William labov said “the aim of linguistic research in the community must be to find out how people how when they are not being observed(he pretended to a shopper and asked a very short question to store clerks). William Labor studied the use of postvocalic as a sociolinguistic variable in NYC(62% saks, 51% Macy’s, and 20% at Kleins). When did Labov conduct the study reported in the reading?(1962). 10/18 : William Labov observed in his study that when reading word lists(hyper correction crossover). Which of the following statements would John Rickford and other linguists and linguistic anthropologists DISAGREE with(Ebonics is a combination of corrupted English and slang). Which statements would John Rickford and other linguist and linguistic anthropologists AGREE about language and dialects?(all languages and dialects are systematic and rule-governed, but their native speakers in general follow these rules unconsciously). Which of the following feature is not widely shared with other varieties of English(habitual be). Which view does John Rickford agree with in terms of the origins of Ebonics?(the Creolist view). African American Vernacular English is an example of,(dialect). What are John R. Rickford and Lisa Green explaining with examples such as “John be studying””he running”?(a grammatical rule of AAE called habitual be). 10/20: how does James Baldwin describe black English(“I realized it was a cadence, it was a beat, much more than- it was not a question of dropping Ss or and or GS, but a question of the beat, really.”). What are Nicky Sunshine, Tracey Weldon, and Jasmine Williams talking about when describing how much individual speakers change the way they talk depending on the context?(register variation and situation code switching). What aspect of African American English are Sharese King, Prudence carter, and Sabrina Moore talking about its use in professional vs Entertainment realms(AAE has covert prestige but not overt prestige). What was Oakland schools decision in regards to Ebonics((none of the above). 10/25: what does Eades mean by the distinction between light and heavy varieties of aboriginal English?(internal variation within aboriginal ways of speaking English where light varieties refer to varieties close to standard or general Australian English and heavy varieties refer to those more distinct from standard or general Australian English). 11/1: in his paper what does scott kiesling analyze in terms of its functions and meanings?(dude as an address term). What kinds of data did he based his analysis and interpretation on?(survey data, ethnographic and interactions data, media). How does kiesling characterize one of the important social meanings that the term dude indicates.(solidarity and non-intimacy in in-group interaction).Which social group uses the term dude most often according to kiesling among his study subjects.(young European men). Which gender type is the second most common speaker(female to female). 11/3: Kiesling discusses the indeterminacy of the meanings of indexes on page 297. Which statement better characterizes this indeterminacy(the meaning of the majority of indexes is vague, flexible, multiple, and therefore highly dependent on context of language use and interaction). Kiesling makes his argument regarding the ways in which indexicality and meaning work(meaning that speakers make by using language in interactions includes social meaning that allows them to build specific social relationships between participants in interactions). What kind of linguistic change in North American English is dude usage part of?(phonological, vowel). Kiesling uses both discourse with lower case d and discourse with upper case d in his writing. Is there a difference between the two?(the term discourse with little d is used to refer to language in use, extended stretches of text, discourse with capital d refers to the combination of language). Kieslings analysis details how dude is not just an address term(each instance of dude has a specific function, and only one function) 11/3: how did abu-lughods status influence her relationship with the community at Initial stages of her stay in the community(as an unmarried adopted daughter, she was protected and more or less restricted to the women’s world). The reading was the introductory chapter of a book called veiled sentiments. What genre of writing, and it’s data collection method does it represent?(ethnographic, participant-observation). What is the main research question/objective the work aims to answer/reach?(what is the relationship between the Bedouin poetic discourse and the discourse of ordinary social interactions?). Which people is the research about?(awlad-ali community of western desert, Egypt) 11/10: which of the following method of data collection is NOT normally associated with an ethnography?(survey questionnaires with multiple-choice questions). What was the research’s approach to the research topic?(non-directional approach, which allowed the researcher to explore and decide. On her research question after beginning to participate in community life). What difficulties did the author of veiled sentiments have at the beginning of the fieldwork?(all of the above). When did the author feel the strong emotion of becoming part of the community(15 months into her stay). How does the author describe the process of becoming part of the community?(becoming fully human). 11/15: father knows best(a gender ideology that continues to characterize middle class European American families in California which were studied by elinor Ochoa and Carolyn Taylor in the 1990s). How many families participated in the larger and particular studies(20 and 7). Narrative roles investigated by ochs and Taylor were(protagonist, introduced, primary recipient, problemizer, and proglemstizee). How do the authors define s story?(a problem-centered past-time narrative). In their analysis of interactions, ochs and Taylor found that: (mothers tended to set up the fathers as primary recipients of the stories by children). Which narrative role is described as family judge(primary recipient). In what ways did the time of problemizers show gender asymmetry in ochs and Taylor’s study?(both quantitatively and qualitatively men showed dominance as problemizers). What kind of research methodology did the study by ochs and Taylor use(discourse/conversational analysis and ethnography of communication methods). What did the authors warn the readers about them results(the sample size of families were small, and there was family and individual variation). Which of the following statements describe best one or the author’s interpretation(women seem to play an important role in enacting and socializing an activity in which they are giving power to the husbands). Research topics: bilingual language socialization, research question: to understand how children are socialized. What are the research questions and interview questions(they are different) 11/29: what did the author of language and woman’s argue?(she argued that there are linguistic differences between women’s and men’s speech styles in speaking English in the US). How does the author characterize literacy?(literacy is not s neutral unidimensional technology that brings about the same major cognitive revolution). How does the author characterize the discourses found in literacy class textbooks(ideologies of self-sufficiency, hard work, development). The reading was a journal article in language(literacy practice of love-letter writing in Junigau, Nepal, in its historical, social, and inter textual contexts). When did the author conduct her research(1990s). What is agency?(the socioculturally mediated capacity to act). Which of the following statements correctly describes live and courtship in junigau as interpreted by agent?(courtship through love letters has become possible in the early 1990s when love became desirable and associated with development and modernity). Which reading materials are discussed as potentially