Chapter 4

Question 1

Ethnography

Answer 1

A primary research strategy in cultural anthropology involving living with a community of people over an extended period to better understand their lives

Question 2

Lakoff

Answer 2

Claims that the English language positions women as subservient to men and is therefore sexist

Differences in conversational styles actually turn out to disadvantage women, contributing to women being effectively silenced

Question 3

Lakoff examples ?

Answer 3

Large scale of words set to their interests (color: blue, navy, aqua)

Tag questions

Empty adjectives such as divine, lovely, cute

Hedges (probably, maybe, might,)

Use of “so”

Super politeness

Question 4

“Berdache”

Answer 4

Is offensive because of its colonial origins and purely sexual connotations

it is a non-Native word of Arabic origin which refers to male slaves who served as anally receptive prostitutes