LCC FInal

Question 1

example of changing reality

Answer 1

“I now pronounce you husband and wife”

Question 2

performativity/ performative speech

Answer 2

talk that takes action or “does something” just through its utterance

Question 3

two types of utterances

Answer 3

constative and performative

Question 4

constative utterance:

Answer 4

can be proven to be true or false

Question 5

performative utterance:

Answer 5

statements that do things

Question 6

in order for a speech to do performativity they need…

Answer 6

authority

Question 7

locutionary act/force:

Answer 7

what was intended-perfomative speech

Question 8

perlocutionary act/force:

Answer 8

what resulted from the utterance/the effects of the utterance

Question 9

ideology:

Answer 9

the means of organizing the ways one sees the world, so that one perspective is made to seem “natural”

Question 10

language ideology:

Answer 10

sets of beliefs that tie linguistic practices to social experiences and relationships

Question 11

can language ideologies be discriminatory?

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

example of ideology in action

Answer 12

respect in service encounters— “can I help you with anything”

Question 13

example of social consequences with gender

Answer 13

the color blanket a baby got is chosen because of gender

Question 14

4 characteristics of gender

Answer 14

1-learned
2-collaborative
3-performative
4-asymmetrical- produces unequal relations

Question 15

linguistic marketplace:

Answer 15

where language exchanges happen

Question 16

ethnography of communication:

Answer 16

knowledge of codes, channels, and expression to use in appropriate contexts

Question 17

social aesthetics of language:

Answer 17

the interweaving of culturally shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language use and the extra linguistic factors that rank people and their groups into hierarchies

Question 18

order of dialects language and accents

Answer 18

language -> dialects -> accents

Question 19

Hijra culture

Answer 19

-third gender
-men behave similar to woman
-act hyper feminine/sexual because women in that area can’t act that way