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What are types of communities of language users? - Answers -speech communities,
communities of practice, speech networks
Speech communities: 3 Gumperz criteria - Answers -shared repetoir, frequent
interaction, shared norms of language
Communities of practice: 3 criteria - Answers -shared repetoir, joint enterprise, mutual
interaction
Mary Bucholtz - Answers -wrote "Nerd Girls", takes place in HS in California
6 problems with Speech community (Bucholtz) - Answers -1. tendency to take
language as central
2. emphasis of consensus as organizing principle of community
3. preference to study those at the center of the community rather than those at the
margins
4. focus on group at expense of individuals
5. view of identity as set static category
6. valorization of researchers over participants
Santa Ana and Parodi - Answers -Nested communities, looked at Mexican Spanish,
Mexico City
Debra Spitulnik - Answers -Radio discourse in Zambia, imagined communities, there
could be a language community without a lingua franca
William Labov - Answers -study in NY Saks, Macy's, and Kleins , self correction to
"proper" language
Jean Jackson - Answers -speech areas in Valpez, linguistic exogamy, shared rules for
speech even though they spoke different languages
linguistic exogamy - Answers -follow language of father, but have to marry someone
who speaks a different language
speech networks - Answers -focuses on connections and interactions
classifications of speech network - Answers -1. strong v weak: describe the network
2.multiplex y uniplex: characterize nature of connection; # of connections
3. high density v low density: how many ppl are living in your speech network
, Miriam Meyerhoff - Answers -"Sorry in the Pacific", Sore in Bislama
Speaking in Tongues - Answers -Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish; barriers in "English
only" language ideology
3 way of being Multi-lingual - Answers -1. diglossia
2. code-switching
3. code-mixing
diglossia - Answers -compartmentalized use of two different codes. Hierarchically
related
code switching - Answers -switching between languages
code mixing - Answers -ex: spanglish
fused lects - Answers -pidgin, creole languages
heteroglossia - Answers -co-existense of multiple languages bc of globalization
1. centripetal: homogenization of language
2. centrifugal: decentralization of language
transidiomatic practices - Answers -simultaneous, multilingual, technology-mediated,
globalized Ex: Call Center
Literacy event - Answers -clear beginning, middle, and end; observable episodes
literacy practice - Answers -General norms regulating literacy events
Nepal Love Letters - Answers -Sometimes literacy events can change literacy
practices; young women who eloped no longer had the protection of the parents
Baquedano-Lopez - Answers -Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts
La Doctrina v Las Redes
Third Space: put information into social context
Zone of Proximal Development
Multiliteracy: recognition of multiplicity
Chilam Balam of Chumayel - Answers -example of literacy practices as colonization
and power
autonomous approach to literacy - Answers -Jack Goody and Walter Ong
Advent of literacy in a society will cause the same social and psychological effects
Literacy is a evolutionary step
ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATED
What are types of communities of language users? - Answers -speech communities,
communities of practice, speech networks
Speech communities: 3 Gumperz criteria - Answers -shared repetoir, frequent
interaction, shared norms of language
Communities of practice: 3 criteria - Answers -shared repetoir, joint enterprise, mutual
interaction
Mary Bucholtz - Answers -wrote "Nerd Girls", takes place in HS in California
6 problems with Speech community (Bucholtz) - Answers -1. tendency to take
language as central
2. emphasis of consensus as organizing principle of community
3. preference to study those at the center of the community rather than those at the
margins
4. focus on group at expense of individuals
5. view of identity as set static category
6. valorization of researchers over participants
Santa Ana and Parodi - Answers -Nested communities, looked at Mexican Spanish,
Mexico City
Debra Spitulnik - Answers -Radio discourse in Zambia, imagined communities, there
could be a language community without a lingua franca
William Labov - Answers -study in NY Saks, Macy's, and Kleins , self correction to
"proper" language
Jean Jackson - Answers -speech areas in Valpez, linguistic exogamy, shared rules for
speech even though they spoke different languages
linguistic exogamy - Answers -follow language of father, but have to marry someone
who speaks a different language
speech networks - Answers -focuses on connections and interactions
classifications of speech network - Answers -1. strong v weak: describe the network
2.multiplex y uniplex: characterize nature of connection; # of connections
3. high density v low density: how many ppl are living in your speech network
, Miriam Meyerhoff - Answers -"Sorry in the Pacific", Sore in Bislama
Speaking in Tongues - Answers -Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish; barriers in "English
only" language ideology
3 way of being Multi-lingual - Answers -1. diglossia
2. code-switching
3. code-mixing
diglossia - Answers -compartmentalized use of two different codes. Hierarchically
related
code switching - Answers -switching between languages
code mixing - Answers -ex: spanglish
fused lects - Answers -pidgin, creole languages
heteroglossia - Answers -co-existense of multiple languages bc of globalization
1. centripetal: homogenization of language
2. centrifugal: decentralization of language
transidiomatic practices - Answers -simultaneous, multilingual, technology-mediated,
globalized Ex: Call Center
Literacy event - Answers -clear beginning, middle, and end; observable episodes
literacy practice - Answers -General norms regulating literacy events
Nepal Love Letters - Answers -Sometimes literacy events can change literacy
practices; young women who eloped no longer had the protection of the parents
Baquedano-Lopez - Answers -Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts
La Doctrina v Las Redes
Third Space: put information into social context
Zone of Proximal Development
Multiliteracy: recognition of multiplicity
Chilam Balam of Chumayel - Answers -example of literacy practices as colonization
and power
autonomous approach to literacy - Answers -Jack Goody and Walter Ong
Advent of literacy in a society will cause the same social and psychological effects
Literacy is a evolutionary step
