UCLA ANTHRO 4 Midterm readings Answered Questions (Latest 2026).

UCLA ANTHRO 4: Midterm readings
Answered Questions (Latest 2026)
Lippi-Green: Linguistic Facts of Life - Correct Answers ✅-
language changes over time
- differs by culture and experience
- language variation are based on technical and sociocultural
influences


Kroskrity: Language as ideologies - Correct Answers ✅-
language ideology: beliefs, attitudes, opinions about
language
- influenced by culture
- multiple
- view of other language ideology reveals one's own and its
hierarchial standing


Duranti: Language as a Non-neutral medium - Correct
Answers ✅- represents experience
- form of social organization
- system of differentiation
- habitual
- because it's non-neutral there is a sense of hierarchy


Baugh: Linguistic Profiling - Correct Answers ✅- linguistic
profiling determines how a culture deems one language and
its speakers as superior or inferior
- need to standardize language

, UCLA ANTHRO 4: Midterm readings
Answered Questions (Latest 2026)

Santa Ana: Like An Animal I was Treated - Correct Answers
✅- metaphors link familiar with unfamiliar
- metaphors are powerful because they are subconscious and
easy to understand


Alim: Hearing What's Not Said and Missing What Is - Correct
Answers ✅- AAE is viewed as less than because it is not the
dominant variety of language
- AE users have advantage
- AAE users style-shift to assimilate
- linguistic superiority is a social construct


Hill: Language, Race, and White Public Space - Correct
Answers ✅- Mock Spanish
- white public space: where white is the norm
- indexicalities


Alim: Nah We Straight - Correct Answers ✅- Obama style
shifts
- AAE patterns while speaking with AAs
- Mixed black preacher style with AE to appear white, black,
American, and Christian
- AE is powerful